Spike Lee
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Nanren,
Tuingie katika darsa na hapa chini nitakuwekea vitu nilivyoandika katika kitabu changu vikuongoze katika kulijua somo hili vyema Insha Allah:
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[TD="width: 752, bgcolor: transparent"] In 1985, President Nyerere, while conferring an honorary degree on Basil Davidson, challenged the University of Dar es Salaamto write a correct history of Tanzania. In 1988, while commemorating thirty years of the Tabora Declaration, Nyerere in reference to early TANU members and as a tribute to them Nyerere asked the Party to take stock of those who joined TANU between 1954 and 1958. Nyerere said: That was the most trying period in the history of our Party and few people were courageous enough to join and work for the Party. [1] [/TD]
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[TD="width: 752, bgcolor: transparent"] In supporting Nyerere for his recent call and taking up the challenge to record a correct history which he had for the first advanced in 1974 and again in 1985 the present author published an article in African Events [2] in which Abdulwahid and other forgotten TANU pioneers received prominence. In that article the author did what no other scholar had done before. He mentioned the fact that Muslims were in the forefront during the struggle for independence. It was at that time taboo to associate Islam or Muslims with the independence movement. The author received sharp rebuke from a Party historian, Dr Mayanja Kiwanuka, a leading member of the panel which wrote the Party book Historia ya Chama Cha TANU 1954-1977, the official history of the Party. The Party historian had this to say: [/TD]
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[TD="width: 752, bgcolor: transparent"] (the)... article...argues that although Muslims in Tanzania played a crucial role in the struggle for independence, there is a deliberate effort to downplay their contribution. Consequently, the entire article contains half-baked fairy tales to sustain his argument, more so by mentioning names of several TANU stalwarts who happened to be Muslims...The greatness of TANU, indeed that of its founder-leader, Mwalimu Nyerere, is that, in so short a time since its inception, it managed to weave together into a formidable, relatively homogenous nationalist movement, a people so ethnically, culturally and religiously diverse... Saids major goal is to sow seeds of discord, and at any price, truth to him is a matter to be ignored. [3] [/TD]
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[TD="width: 752, bgcolor: transparent"] This was the reaction from Kiwanuka, who supervised the research on the official history of the party, reducing a research article to what he called a fairy tale. The author was also accused of lying. Kiwanuka, not deviating from the Party stand, emphasised the greatness of the party and its founder-leader. Kiwanuka was at that time the Assistant Secretary in the Department of Political Propaganda and Mass Mobilisation of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi. Kiwanuka had as an undergraduate student at University of Dar es Salaam, written on post-independence Muslim-Christian relations. [4] [/TD]
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[1] Daily News, 6 th October, 1988.
[2] See M. Said, In Praise of Ancestors Africa Events, London, March/April 1988,pp. 37-41.
[3] See Africa Events,May, 1988, letter by Dr K. Mayanja Kiwanuka.
[4] K. Mayanja Kiwanuka, ThePolitics of Islam in Bukoba District (1973), B.A. Thesis, University of Dares Salaam.
Nanren,
Tusonge mbele na darsa letu:
Mtafute Abubakar Olutu hapa chini ambae aliandika kitabu chakeHistoria ya TANU Kilimanjaro Publiations 1980:[TABLE="class: MsoNormalTable"]
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[TD="width: 752, bgcolor: transparent"] The first serious attempt to record the history of TANU was done by none other than Abdulwahid himself. When TANU captured state power from the British in 1961 and was in the first phase of consolidating itself as a mass party, it is said that Abdulwahid was asked by Julius Nyerere, then Prime Minister of the country, to record the history of the struggle of the Africans of Tanganyika against the British. This, in essence, was to be the history of TANU. To assist him in the research was the late Dr Wilbert Kleruu, recently returned from studies in the United States. [/TD]
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[TD="width: 752, bgcolor: transparent"] Abdulwahid occupied his former office at the TANU headquarters; the one which he had occupied in the 1950s when he was TAA President. Abdulwahids personal files, dairies and his late fathers papers dating back to the days of the formation of African Association in 1929 were made available to researchers for the first time as primary sources of information. Abdulwahids version, analysis, presentation of facts and interpretation of forces at play which led to the rise of nationalism were, however, not acceptable to the TANU leadership. We shall see in the following pages reasons why Abdulwahids version of history could not be allowed to flourish. Abdulwahid abandoned the assignment after being convinced that the new leadership in TANU was not really interested in documenting an authenticated history of Tanganyika but was interested in merely creating a personality cult for President Nyerere. Dr Kleruu went ahead with the research and completed the work. This manuscript remains unpublished, at least in its original form. The manuscript disappeared from Party archives and was published for the first time in 1971 under a different name after changes had been done by the author on the original manuscript to prevent detection by the Party. After the book was published, the Party silently tried to stop the second edition of the book from being published but failed. The work has now been published several times. The approach, style and analysis of the subject is not very much different from the book on TANU published in 1981 by the Party ideological college. [/TD]
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[TD="width: 752, bgcolor: transparent"] However there is an anomaly in the book which the author overlooked. The author, so to speak, writing in the first person, states that he wrote the book in 1964. In that particular passage the author provides information from which by reading between the lines the reader gets an impression that the author is familiar and intimate with the Party members mentioned. But the author, in providing the date of his work, forgot that in 1964 he was a young boy in his teens and could not have known those people in 1950s nor have the intellect to undertake such an academic pursuit. The question is now, who is the real author of that passage? With the information now known, this could not even be the pen of Dr Kleruu writing that passage because he, like the author, was never part of that period. Only one person could have such information and mastery of issues of those times. This could only be Abdulwahid writing in 1964. The author had carelessly copied a passage from Abdulwahids notes preserved in the TANU archives. And this was not done in 1964 either, but much later after his death. [/TD]
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[TD="width: 752, bgcolor: transparent"] From that time Abdulwahid avoided involving himself in any discussion about the subject, although before his death he accepted an invitation and talked to the Historical Association of Tanzania (HAT). It has not been possible to get information on the topic presented for discussion, but it is said that one of the questions from the audience to him was whether it was not true that, Julius Nyerere had turned round the Party beginning in 1954. To this Abdulwahid gave an analogy of the astronaut John Glenn, the first American to go into outer space. Abdulwahid threw the question back to his audience and asked, Where should the credit go, to the American scientists who designed and built the rocket, or to John Glenn who piloted it?
Ikiwa hukuelewa darsa hii nifahamishe nikujuvye zaidi.
Ama kuhusu NRA, Prof. Malima, Waislam, CUF fungua uzi Insha Allah nitakuja kutoa darsa.
Publishers wanagombana na mie wanasema watakuwa hawauzi vitabu vyangu
vijavyo kwa kuwa natoa habari bure.
Jibu nimewaaambia hii ni hidaya kanipa Allah na ni amana kwa hiyo wenye
amana yao wakija kuitaka lawajibika kuwapa.
Allah ndiye mpaji wasahau hizo fedha kea muda.
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Nanren,
Amekuwekea maneno mdomoni kuhusu Ababakary Oluto.
Nafyonza Ilm kisha naenda zangu tarudi tena.
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