Jambo jema kwakufanya kipindi, hoja ya msingi ni usharika wa Malkia Elizabeth, Kanisa Katoliki na Julius Nyerere katika Uhuru wa Tanganyika.
Wanamajlis,
Kuna mtu kanambia nisichoke kutoa darsa kwani katika kusomesha kwangu
toka nilipoingia JF wengi wamefaidika.
Sheikh Mohamed Ayub wa TAMTA Tanga alikuwa akisema, "Elimu ni amana
ya Allah kwa mja. Aliyonayo na akafanya khiyana anakuwa kadhulumu."
Naweka hapa kile nilichoandika katika kitabu cha
Abdul Sykes kuhusu safari
ya
Nyerere UNO mwaka 1955:
February 1955
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[TD]"TANU needed about twelve thousand shillings to enable
Nyerere to travel to the United Nations, New York. The committee of
Abdu Kandoro, Japhet Kirilo and
Abbas Sykes had collected some funds from the provinces which were used on
Ally and
Phombeah's abortive trip to the Pan African Congress in Lusaka. What was left was not enough. Funds had to be sought from the people to enable
Nyerere make the trip.
John Rupia contributed more than one third of the amount. Other staunch members contributed generously, but in that formative stage TANU was poor and the amount was still beyond its ability to raise. Realizing the deficit in the funds for
Nyerere's trip,
Idd Faiz was requested to travel to Tanga and get more funds from there.
Mwalimu Kihere had already collected the money and was only waiting for it to be collected and to be delivered to the headquarters. At the same time TANU received information that whoever traveled to Tanga to get the money for
Nyerere's trip would be arrested on his way back. Before departure
Oscar Kambona TANU General Secretary and
John Rupia TANU Vice-President went to see
Idd Faiz at his house at Ilala for a briefing and to wish him luck.[/TD]
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[TD]The journey to Tanga was uneventful but on the return leg the bus on which Idd Faiz was traveling was waylaid by the Special Branch at Turiani.
Idd Faiz was arrested, stripped naked and searched, but no money was found on him. This baffled the Special Branch arresting officer because they had information that
Idd Faiz [1] had actually picked up the money from
Mwalimu Kihere in Tanga.
Idd Faiz was therefore taken to Dar es Salaam under armed escort for interrogation and was later released. The money for
Nyerere's trip to New York reached Dar es SalaamTANU headquarters safely. The money was carried by a young girl who was a passenger on the bus. On 17 th February, 1955 Nyerere left for New York to address the Trusteeship Council of the United Nations. He had been sent by TANU with the following message:[/TD]
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[TD]...to see the elective principle established and Africans securing a majority on all representative bodies of a public nature... This we believe, is in accordance with the terms of the Trusteeship Agreement and Article 76 of the United Nations Charter.
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[TD]At the United Nations, TANU was not articulating anything new; these were the very recommendations of the memorandum which the TAA Political Subcommittee had prepared and submitted to the Constitutional Development Committee of
Governor Edward Twining in 1950.
Governor Twining ignored TAA recommendations and instead pursued a multiracial representation in the Legislative Council. To keep up with its stand, the government sent a multiracial delegation composed of
I.C. Chopra an Asian,
Sir Charles Phillips a European, and
Liwali Yustino Mponda, an African member of the Legislative Council for Newala to oppose TANU at the United Nations.[/TD]
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[TD]Nyerere came back from New York on Saturday, 19 th March, 1955 and was met at the airport by a huge crowd.
Dossa Aziz remembers that at the airport he was allowed to drive his car on to the tarmac to make it easy for
Nyerere to get into the vehicle without much hustle.
Dossa Aziz says that if it was not for this courtesy by the airport authorities
Nyerere would have been mobbed by the crowd. People were everywhere shoving and pushing trying to get a glimpse of
Nyerere. In unison they were singing and dancing to
mganda, a Zaramo
ngoma, singing: '
Baba kabwela yuno' meaning, ‘Father of the poor has come back from UNO'. No one had ever heard that song before and no one knew when it was composed.
Dossa Aziz's car carrying
Nyerere was pushed from the airport to
Nyerere's house in Magomeni Majumba Sita.[/TD]
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[TD]The following day, which was a Sunday, TANU held a public rally at Mnazi Mmoja which was attended by the biggest crowd that was ever seen assembled in one place. It was estimated that more than 40,000 people out of a population of no more than 250,000 came from every corner of Dar es Salaam to listen to
Nyerere. And no one enjoyed reporting about the meeting and
Nyerere's historic trip to the United Nations than
Mashado Plantan in his paper
Zuhra. Mashado's press at Ndanda Street, Mission Quarters churned out extra copies of the paper and the whole edition was sold out."[/TD]
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Kutoka Kushoto:Idd Faiz Mafongo, Sheikh Mohamed Ramiya, Julius Nyerere,
Saadan Abdu Kandoro na Haruna Taratibu Dodoma Railway Station 1956
[2] J.K. Nyerere,
Freedom and Unity, Dar es Salaam, 1966, p.36.
Wanamajlis,
Hebu tizameni majina ya wazalendo waliokuwa wanaitafuta tiketi ya
Nyerere na
fananisheni na habari tunayoelezwa hapa kuwa tiketi ilitoka New York.
Sitomalizia hapa nitayaleta majina hayo hapo juu myaone historia yake kuangalia
walitoka wapi na TANU na
Nyerere:
August 1954
"The TANU inaugural meeting was attended by a small crowd of about twenty people, among them
Julius Nyerere,
Abdulwahid and
Ally Sykes, Dossa Aziz, John Rupia, Mshume Kiyate, Makisi Mbwana, Jumbe Tambaza, Juma Waziri, Clement Mtamila, Rajab Diwani, Schneider Plantan, Marsha Bilali, Rashidi Ally Meli, Frederick Njiliwa, Idd Faiz Mafongo, Idd Tulio, Denis Phombeah and others.
Abdulwahid, Ally, Dossa Aziz and
Rupia were the main financiers of the movement in Dar es Salaam..."
Haya majina katika
rangi nyekundu 1954 katika mkutano wa kwanza wa TANU ndiyo 1955 yanayonekana katika harakati za
kumpeleka
Nyerere UNO mwaka huo.
Wanamajlis,
Hii ndiyo historia ya TANU niijuayo mie.
Ikiwa mnataka zaidi nielezeni nije na kisa cha kusisimua cha
Rashid Ally Meli mmoja wa wanachama wa mwanzo wa TANU.
Nini
Rashid Ally Meli alifanya kupata fedha za tiketi ya
Nyerere kwenda UNO.