Naihurumia jamii ambayo imelishwa hizi ngano za Mohamed Said kwa muda wa miaka 15 na yenyewe ikapokea hizo ngano kama zilivyo. Huyu mtu hana nukuu yoyote iwe ya John Sivalon, Andulwahid Sykes wala hiyo listi ndeeefu ya anaowaita wazee wake. Anayotetea yeye ni mawazo yake aliyokaa akayatunga kwa malengo maalum hasa pale alipowasoma aliowakusudia na kutambua mapema kuwa watayapokea mazima mazima bila hata kujiuliza.
Nina wasi wasi na hizo anazozitaja kama nyaraka za Abdulwahid Sykes kama zipo na anazinukuu kama zilivyo, watu wa aina yake ndivyo walivyo, wachochezi. Nikitoa mfano ameombwa alete nukuu ya kitabu cha Sivalon kama kilivyo kuthibitisha maneno anayodai kuyasoma humo lakini kashindwa...kama kawaida ya mbea amebakia kujiuma. Kama tusingepata hiyo hotuba ya Nyerere ambayo imemuumbua mchana kweupee, bado angekazania tu uongo wake kuwa Mwalimu hakuwataja wazee wake.
Kuhusu nyaraka za hao wazee wa Mohamed Said ambazo anadai anazo, hata siku moja hajawahi kuzitoa popote pale, ziko tu kichwani kwake na hakuna mtu amewahi kumdai sauti wala video kuzithibitisha. Uwezekano mkubwa upo kuwa aliziandika yeye mwenyewe na kwa njia aliyotaka. Yeye leo pamoja na kutolewa hotuba ya Mwalimu kwa Wazee wake bado anadai uthibitisho wa sauti na ikiwezekana video. Sasa na mimi leo namwomba na yeye atuletee hapa sauti za wazee wake wakisema na kutenda anayodai Mohamed Said.
Sasa maajabu ya hawa wazee wa Mohamed Said! Sisi tukiongelea wazee wetu Watanganyika wa sehemu zote kusini hadi kaskazini, magharibi hadi mashariki, yeye amekazania wazee wake wa Gerezani Dar es Salaam (ukanda), tukiwataja wazee wetu Watanganyika wa makabila yote makubwa kwa madogo, yeye amekazania wazee wake Manyema na Wazulu (ukabila) na tukiwaenzi wazee wetu Watanganyika wa dini zote pamoja na wasio na dini, yeye amekazania wazee wake wa Kiislaam (udini).
Mwisho nina ombi kwa jukwaa (hii ni JF)...imeonekana kitabu/vitabu alivyoandika Mohamed Said havina ukweli na kama upo ni asilimia kidogo sana, sasa tusiishie hapa...tuende next step...wapotoshaji kama yeye adhabu yao ipo. Their works have to be discredited as academic dishonesty...a deliberate attempt to falsify, fabricate data, records, or information. Taasisi, Waandishi na wachapishaji wote aliowawekea maneno mdomoni kwa nukuu zisizo sahihi, juhudi zifanyike wajulishwe hatua ziweze kuchukuliwa. Nawapa changamoto wana JF.
Mag3,
Umekasirika sana.
Kuhusu kumweka Sivalon hivi lazima niweke mie. Hiki kitabu mbona maarufu tu si hata na wewe unaweza kukitafuta?
Basi unanishambulia kwa jambo dogo kama hili?
Msikiti wa Mtambani kimejaa tele bei shs: 2000 hadi shs: 1500.
Idara ya Historia Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam wapo wahadhir waliobobea katika historia si wafuatwe waambiwe wakichunguze
hiki kitabu changu kwani kuna tatizo gani?
JF si watu khasa wanaoweza kukufanyia kazi hiyo.
Hiyo changamoto umeipeleka sipo.
Kama hilo kubwa Chuo Kikuu Cha Dar es Salaam si wakifanyie hata pitio (review) mbona vyuo vya Ulaya na Marekani wamefanya?
Ingawa miaka 15 ishapita bado hujachelewa.
Fanya hayo na mimi Insha Allah utanikuta ni mwenye kusubiri.
Lakini nakuambia hawataweza na nakuambia tena hawataweza.
Kuna mengi usiyoyajua kama ulivyokuwa hujui kuwa ipo historia ya uhuru wa Tanganyika ambayo kabla ya leo hukujua ipo.
Nakuongeza watu ambao wanaweza kufuatwa kwa ajili ya kutazama nyaraka za historia ya uhuru wa Tanganyika.
Naamini watu hawa watatoa ushirikiano kama walivyotoa kwangu.
Wangine wa hai wengine weshatangulia mbele ya haki.
Nakuwekea hapa shukurani kama nilivyoandika katika ''The Life and Times of Abdulwahid Sykes (1924 - 1968) The Untold Story of the Muslim Struggle Against Colonialism in Tanganyika,'' Minerva Press London 1989.
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I am grateful to the pioneers of change in Southern Province, Said Alley Mwalimu and late Mohamed Ali Abdallah ‘Makarios' both of Mikindani; to Salum Mpunga and Yusuf Chembera of Lindi, both of them now deceased, for letting me draw from their colonial experiences in southern Tanganyika; to Tewa Said Tewa, Dossa Aziz, Zuberi Mtemvu and Sheikh Haidar Mwinyimvua of Dar es Salaam; to Yusuf Ulotu of Moshi, popularly known as Yusuf Ngozi,Mohamed Kajembe, Rashid Sembe and Mmaka Omari of Tanga for providing me with unique information on colonial politics as it related to the ‘educated' African Christians on the one hand and the ‘uneducated' Afro-Arabs and African Muslims on the other. This information has helped me understand and interprete the conflict between Muslims and Christians which surfaced soon after independence and the contradictions which I have tried to depict in this work.[/TD]
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I am also grateful to Omar Suleiman, Haruna Taratibu and Hassan Suleiman,[1] the brilliant political organiser of the period between the two World Wars, and to Germano Pacha, the last TAA provincial secretary and a TANU founder member, for his information on the formation of the Party; and to Rashid Mussa who, not knowing that the person he was referring to was my grandfather, informed me about my grandfather's early political career and his role in the first General Strike in colonial Tanganyika in 1947. I wish to pay special gratitude to Bilali Rehani Waikela, a Manyema gentleman and a devout Muslim. At twenty-five years of age in 1955, Waikela was one of TANU founding members in Tabora. [/TD]
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Waikela educated me about how Muslims as a political force supported Nyerere and the struggle for independence. He also briefed me about his days in detention with my grandfather at Uyui Prison for ‘mixing religion and politics'. I am indebted to him for putting at my disposal photographs of the period and his personal papers on the Muslim ‘crisis'which emerged soon after independence. I am grateful to Waikela for encouraging me to write this book and to write on the plight of Muslims as a result of their marginalisation by Nyerere's regime. Unlike many of my informants, Waikela allowed me to quote him without any fear. He was pleased to see that the information he had was being put to good use in preserving the history of our country for the benefit of future generations. He also put me in touch with other patriots like Mohamed Mangiringiri, Ramadhani Singo and others, whom I interviewed at length. [/TD]
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This work would not have been possible if it were not for the moral and material assistance I received from Ally Sykes. Ally Sykes allowed me to interview him on many occasions in spite of his busy schedules managing his business from his city center office. He allowed me to consult his own private files, personal letters, diaries and other family records. These records were kept in a safe which I was informed remained untouched for over thirty years. Going through the files I was amazed by Ally Sykes' obsession with record keeping. Every piece of paper with information was kept, however trifling it may have seemed during the struggle -a 1954 pencil note from Zuberi Mtemvu to Ally Sykes, informing him of a discussion he had with Nyerere about him and TANU; a 1953 money order receipt from Ally Sykes to Japhet Kirilo during the Meru Land Case; an undated copy of the letter from TAA to Queen Elizabeth signed by the entire executive (the President, Julius Nyerere, Vice-President Abdulwahid Sykes, General Secretary Dome Okochi, Assistant Secretary Dossa Aziz, Treasurer John Rupia, Assistant Treasurer Ally Sykes) congratulating Her Majesty on her coronation; a 1952 letter from Rashid Mfaume Kawawa from Bukoba to Ally Sykes informing him of the political situation in the Lake Region; a 1963 letter from Lady Judith Listowel; letters from Kenneth Kaunda, Julius Nyerere, Kasella Bantu ... the list is endless. This habit was apparently inherited from his father who used to file each and every piece of paper which had any information worth noting. [/TD]
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It is a pity that I could not get access to Abdulwahid's diaries, which I understand had many entries in shorthand and are untranscribed. I was also not able to obtain World War I memoir of Kleist Sykes. There is no doubt whatsoever that these documents are invaluable. It is my hope that one day these important documents on the history of the Party and of our nation will find their way to the Tanzania National Archives for the benefit of future generations.
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Over the years, I had many discussions with members of the family, and got very useful information out of our casual talks. The result of all this is what I believe to be an authenticated historical narration of the life and times of Abdulwahid Sykes and other forgotten patriots to whom the country, CCM and the Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere, owe so much in one way or another.[/TD]
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I wish to thank all those who allowed me to interview them but have asked for anonymity. Even those who refused to talk to me about the subject, and to publishers who rejected my manuscript out of fear and those who preferred silence, I must admit, in their own peculiar way contributed to this work.
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Msemaji mmoja kanambia ningekuwa na uwezo wa kutunga kitu kama hiki kitabu hiki kiwe ni ''fiction'' tungelikuweka katika hadhi sawa na waandishi maarufu wa Kimarekani kama Irving Wallace, Ernest Hemingway, Mark twain na wengineo.
Bahati mbaya kitabu changu ni kazi ya kweli si ''fiction.''
Nimekosa bahati ya kuwekwa sawa kwa sawa na mabingwa hawa watunzi.
[SUP][SUP][1][/SUP][/SUP]A biography of Hassan Suleiman appears in Iliffe (ed) ‘The Politicians Ali Ponda and Hassan Suleiman,' in Modern Tanzanians, pp.227-253.