Waungwana wenyewe ndio wanaandika pumba kama hizi? Waungwana my foot!
Hivi tukimwita huyu mfitini wenu majina kama hayo ya "kikojozi" n.k utajisikiaje?
Nanren,
Mimi si fundi wa matusi.
Kipaji hiki kwangu mie kigeni.
Lakini kwa hoja sina wasiwasi.
Ukinitukana mimi ni sawa umewatukana hawa ambao nimewataja hapo chini:
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[TD]Another place which
Mwalimu Nyerere frequented during those early days was the Kariakoo Market.
Kariakoo Market building housing the market resembled a huge shack made of steel, concrete and corrugated iron sheets.
The market was busy around the clock with all kind of business being carried inside the market and within its environs.
One could tell the tribe of the traders from the kind of trade he or she was engaged in. The Mashomvi were selling fish, the Zaramo were into coconut business, the Nyamwezi particularly women confined themselves to selling dried tobacco leaves and snuff, and their men were selling yams grown in Kigamboni.
The Luguru were into oranges and vegetables.
Arabs owned butchers and sold flour, cereals and spices. This retail business Arabs were in competition with Indians.
Kariakoo Market was a fertile place for TANU to recruit members and
Abdulwahid did not lose that opportunity.
Among the traders to support TANU from Kariakoo Market was
Mzee Mshume Kiyate.
At that time in 1952 when
Abdulwahid Sykes met
Mwalimu Julius Nyerere he was working as Market Master of Karikoo Market.
His office was at the junction of Tandamti Street (now Mshume Kiyate) and Swahili Street.
The afternoon after resigning from teaching
Mwalimu Nyerere took a bus from Pugu and got off at Kariakoo which was the main stand and went straight to
Abdulwahid's office to give him the news.
Abdulwahid accommodated
Mwalimu Nyerere at his house at Stanley Street until when
Mwalimu left for to Butiama to get married to
Mama Maria.
This house exists today but has undergone massive renovations altering its original look.
Shariff Attas who was working as market auctioneer recalls that he used to escort
Mwalimu Nyerere from
Abdulwahid's office to
Sykes' house for lunch wait for him and come back together.
Mwalimu would sit in
Abdulwahid's office reading
The Tanganyika Standard.
After closing of business at 4.30 Abdulwahid and
Nyerere would come back home together.
Many people in Dar es Salaam first saw and therefore came to know
Mwalimu Nyerere during that time.
During this period
Abdulwahid nearly lost his job as Market Master when
Nyerere and TANU's message began to be understood by the people.
Abdulwahid was accused of selling TANU cards in Her Majesty's Office.
Shariff Attas recalls the thrilling shouting match between
Abdulwahid Sykes and the white colonial officer inside
Sykes's office when Abdulwahid in his impeccable English and without fear took out his TANU card and challenged the
mzungu to take him to court if he feels he has contravened any law and TANU was not a legally registered party.
The veranda which used to be a meeting place where TANU leadership used to hold its meetings and where many people came to know
Mwalimu Julius Nyerere is now a bazaar, the people who come to the place to buy and sell completely unaware of its rich history.
But the liveliest meeting place –
Mwalimu Nyerere frequented outside the ‘Sunday Baraza' at Congo and Stanley Street at
Dossa's house and Sykes' place was at
Sheikh Suleiman Takadir's auction mart.
Sheikh Takadir was the Chairman of the TANU Elders Council the powerful body which had people like
Mshume Kiyate, Mwinjuma Mwinyikambi, Jumbe Tambaza and others as members.
Sheikh Takadir was an auctioneer and was conducting his business from a house situated at Nyamwezi Street belonging to
Mwinjuma Digosi, a
jumbe appointed by the government.
The auction used to be the meeting place of TANU members.
TANU members used to meet at
Sheikh Takadir's premises to drink coffee discuss politics and while away the time.
When
Digosi, the landlord realised that
Nyerere was visiting
Sheikh Takadir at his place of business, he asked
Sheikh Takadir to seek accommodation elsewhere.
He told
Sheikh Takadir that he could no longer have him as a tenant because he as a
jumbe appointed by the government cannot allow his house to be a meeting place of ‘troublemakers' like
Nyerere and other riff - raffs.
Sheikh Takadir had no choice but to shift his business to Msimbazi Street.
Sheikh Suleiman Takadir was to oppose Nyerere's decision to participate in the controversial tripartite election of 1958 and the two became bitter enemies never to reconcile resulting into expulsion of
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