Yericko,
Ngano iko wapi?
Nakuwekea tena kwa wepesi wa rejea wanasiasa waliokuwa
pamoja na baba yako kwenye TANU na wengine walimtangulia
katika siasa pale TAA HQ New Street, Dar es Salaam.
Unamkana nani katika hayo?
Nakuuliza tena.
Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere ni ngano?
Hakuwepo hapo na akina
Abdu Sykes na
Joseph Kassela Bantu?
Unakataa nini?
Msome tena hapa chini baba yako na zingatia footnote ya
Tanganyika
Standard 19th June 1953.
Historia ya baba yako katika siasa za Tanganyika ilianza kipindi hicho.
Au nayo ni ngano?
Yericko,
Hebu jikumbushe:
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My family was acquainted with one Dome Budohi, a Kenyan nationalist who was in Dar es Salaam during the struggle.
Budohi helped in the founding of TANU and his membership card was no.6 issued to him in July, 1954. He was arrested in 1955 by the colonial government on charges of being a member of Mau Mau, a peasant uprising in Kenya against the British.
I have many recollections of visiting Budohi in his cell at the Central Police Station building which now houses the headquarters of the Tanzania Railway Corporation (TRC).
I was at that time a child of not more than four years old. My first recollection of Budohi was that whenever we went to visit him we always found him reading a newspaper.
Budohi was later deported to Kenya and detained on Lamu Island. On being released from detention just before Kenyas independence in 1963, Budohi went to Uganda and worked with The Uganda Argus. I now understand why I always found him immersed in newspapers whenever we went to visit him in his cell during his period in remand in Dar es Salaam.[/TD]
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I was able, through the assistance of one Maxwell, probably a Luo and an old friend of his who remained in Tanganyika, to trace Budohi in Nairobi in 1972. I visited him in Nairobi.
At that time he was staying at Ruiru a few miles from the city. Budohi had a portrait of Nat King Cole hanging in his sitting room. In 1974 I visited him again this time at his Ngei Estate house.
Budohi became my primary source of information on the early history of Tanganyikas struggle against the British. At that time, however, I had no intention of writing a book.
Yericko,
Soma tena na hapa chini:
There were also patriots from nearby Kenya such as Dome Okochi Budohi and Patrick Aoko who had been exposed to the problems of colonial settler politics of grabbing land from the people.
From them, Abdulwahid received very attentive ears and admiration for his ideas of transforming TAA into a more robust political organisation. Soon after the formation of TANU the two Kenyan nationalists were arrested by the government.
For six months they were interrogated and kept in remand at the Central Police Station chained in their cells.
Yericko,
Hapa napenda kukufahamisha kuwa Dome Budohi akifahamiana vyema na baba yako
Mwalimu Julius Kambarage Nyerere. Soma hapa chini wapi walikutana:
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In June, TAA headquarters announced its executive committee with J.K. Nyerere, President; Abdulwahid Sykes, Vice-President; J.P. Kasella Bantu, General Secretary; Alexander M. Tobias and Waziri Dossa Aziz, Joint Minuting Secretary; John Rupia, Treasurer and Ally K. Sykes as Assistant Treasurer. Committee members were Dr Michael Lugazia, Hamisi Diwani, Tewa Said, Denis Phombeah, Z. James, Dome Okochi, C. Ongalo and Patrick Aoko.[1]
The composition of the TAA leadership showed East African solidarity that existed during the struggle for independence.
Kenyan patriots were elected as office bearers side by side with Tanganyikans.
It is said that it was about that time, in the last months of 1953, that Abdulwahid talked to Nyerere seriously about forming an open political party to replace TAA.
Yericko,
Bado una hoja bado mie ni muongo?
Yericko
Nini unachokikataa katika haya?
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[1] Tanganyika Standard, 19 th June 1953. [/TD]
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