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Uchochezi wa Mohamed Said na dhihaka kwa Wapigania Uhuru wa Tanganyika na Zanzibar
Uchochezi wa Mohamed Said na dhihaka kwa Wapigania Uhuru wa Tanganyika na Zanzibar
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Mbona unataka majibu kwa haraka hivyo? halafu ukipewa ndio iweje! hata Mkapa alipewa lakini aliishia mitini!
The Marginalisation of Muslims in the Ministry of Education and the Changes Effected by Prof. Kighoma Ali Malima, 1987
With time the problem of Muslim education waned as other Muslim issues took over public interest. But to the enlightened Muslims the problem remained simmering below the surface only to be brought back to life by Prof. Kighoma Malima in 1987.In 1987 Prof. Malima became the first Muslim Minister of Education. This ministry had consistently been under a Christian minister since independence in 1961. There were accusations that the ministry was a Christian stronghold particularly when at one time a pastor was appointed minister to head the ministry. When Professor Malima became minister of education he thought it was imperative that some changes be effected in the ministry to win back the confidence of Muslims. There were accusations that the ministry was discriminating against Muslim youths barring them from higher institutions of learning and was frustrating career advancement of Muslims functionaries in the ministry.
Table 5
University of Dar es Salaam Student Enrollment
[TABLE="class: cms_table, width: 354"]
[TR]
[TD="width: 32%"]Year[/TD]
[TD="width: 36%"]Christians[/TD]
[TD="width: 32%"]Muslims[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 32%"]1985/86[/TD]
[TD="width: 36%"]85%[/TD]
[TD="width: 32%"]15%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 32%"]1986/87[/TD]
[TD="width: 36%"]84%[/TD]
[TD="width: 32%"]16%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 32%"]1988/89[/TD]
[TD="width: 36%"]82%[/TD]
[TD="width: 32%"]18%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 32%"]1989/90[/TD]
[TD="width: 36%"]82%[/TD]
[TD="width: 32%"]18%[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
Source: Research Data
Table 6
Muslim and Christian Appointments in the Ministry of Education 1961-1989
[TABLE="class: cms_table, width: 535"]
[TR]
[TD="width: 49%"]Post[/TD]
[TD="width: 51%"]Muslim[/TD]
[TD]Christian[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Commissioners[/TD]
[TD="width: 30%"]1[/TD]
[TD="width: 30%"]7[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 49%"]Directors[/TD]
[TD="width: 51%"]6[/TD]
[TD]31[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
Source: Research Data
Prof. Malima found out that professionalism and objective decision making had long been forgotten in the ministry. Examinations were marked using candidates actual names instead of numbers as is the norm the world over. This created an environment in which it was easy for Christian candidates to be favoured. Prof. Malima also found that Muslim functionaries were barred from promotions. Prof. Malima had to rectify the discrepancies at the ministry. First he promoted three Muslims whose promotions were long overdue after retiring three Christians whose retirement was long overdue. Prof. Malima also promoted a Muslim to the post of commissioner. This change made the balance of distribution of top post at the ministry between Muslims and Christians to stand at 30% to 70% scales still tipping in favour of Christians.
Yet inspite of this imbalance Christians in the ministry complained that Prof. Malimas promotions were religiously motivated. Prof. Malima found out that the population of Muslim students in primary school was more than 50% but they were few in secondary schools. He realised something must be seriously wrong and he therefore directed that examinations numbers should be used in marking examinations. After these changes the number of Muslims students admitted to secondary schools increased by 40%. Prof. Malima fears were confirmed that there was cheating in the ministry. And that kind of cheating was worse than ordinary cheating. Those who were playing that kind of game were poising to put the country in a dangerous path which could cost the nation dearly.
Prof. Malima wrote a confidential report to the President on the state of affairs he had found in the ministry. In that report (16) Prof. Malima mentioned the stagnation of Muslims and women in education. Prof. Malima warned that if this problem was not solved it was going to create problems to the country in the future. Prof. Malima's report got leaked to the press. This letter by Prof. Malima made him a hero to his own people and a villain to the establishment and to the most fervent enemies of Islam in Tanzania. There was panic in the ministry.
It is said that among those who received the report was the former Vice-President and Prime Minister Joseph Warioba. It was obvious that Nyerere was monitoring President Mwinyi in everything he did. To be able to do what he did Nyerere had to have people deep inside President Mwinyis establishment. Nyerere and Warioba were outraged by the letter and tried to have him sacked from the government and party in the same style which ousted Jumbe four years earlier. But this time the issue on the agenda was more sensitive and transparent then was the case with Aboud Jumbe which was covered by political intrigues. Muslims were following closely Prof. Malimas fight against the Christian bastion with great interest.
Christian Lobby Persecution Against Prof. Malima
Prof. Malima had said something which was gnawing Muslims for many years. Muslims supported him. This support by Muslims increased hatred against him from the Christian camp. The Christian lobby felt doubly threatened. Already there was tension between Muslims and Christians. With Prof. Malima heading the ministry it could not have the free hand it once enjoyed. A campaign of hate and misinformation against Prof. Malima was unleashed by the press. Prof. Malima was branded a Muslim 'fundamentalist,' accused of religious intolerance and excessive partisanship. President Mwinyi instead of directing the government to investigate the problem of Muslim being purposely denied opportunities he referred the issue to the Party for discussion. This issue went before the Party in Dodoma under the chairmanship of Mwalimu Nyerere for discussion.The Christian lobby in the CCM wanted Prof. Malima to be ousted from the party. Nyerere cunning as he is objected to that decision. He knew that to expel Prof. Malima for speaking on behalf of Muslims would make him an instant hero in the eyes of Muslims and if that happens CCM had no means to deal with such kind of a situation. When the issue went before CCM instead of discussing Malima's report and find solution to the Muslim stagnation, the victim and not the perpetrator of the crime was put on trial by the party. The party did not want to discuss Prof. Malimas report which centred on Muslims stagnation. CCM was only keen to discuss Prof. Malima. President Mwinyi succumbed to the powerful Christian lobby.
This was the first time the Church through the Christian lobby intervened openly to protest on Muslim appointments. The Christian lobby put forward a proposal that Prof. Malima be expelled from the CCM. In his defence Prof. Malima stood to what he had written in his letter to the president. Prof. Malimas defense was that never had Muslims questioned promotions of Christians why should the Church interfere in his appointments and in his report to the president. Strangely, Nyerere blasted those who were condemned Prof. Malima. He told them that the Church had its own way for too long and it was high time it prepared its followers for changes. Nevertheless Nyerere who had become president behind the president ordered him removed from the Ministry of Education. Prof. Malima was found to have overstepped the norms built in the ministry for many years and was therefore relieved of his post and President Mwinyi appointed the timid late Amrani Mayagila in his place.
This is how unconsciously Muslims are made to conform with the wishes of the Christian lobby. If President Mwinyi would have appointed a Christian to succeed Prof. Malima he would have pulled the carpet under the lobbys feet. That act would have given Muslims more fuel to fan the fire against the Church. But by appointing a weak Muslim to the post he had given the impression that the ministry was still under a Muslim minister while in fact it was not. All decisions were done by the lobby as evidenced by the decisions which were passed to reverse all achievements gained under Prof. Malima. After the removal of Prof. Malima from the ministry the ministry reverted back into marking examination using names of candidates instead of numbers. Muslim student admission to secondary school once again dwindled.
Muslims who were following Prof. Malimas "trial" could not tell whether Mayagila the new Minister of Education was a Muslim or a Christian. It was only after a lot of inquiries that they came to confirm that Mayagila was after all and indeed a Muslim. His fellow Muslims in the party and government were terrified of Nyerere and decided to remain uncommitted to the Muslim problem, yet privately they admitted that what Prof. Malima was saying was true. Prof. Malima did not write that report to the president because of hatred to Christians much as he did not join TANU because he hated the British. TANU fought for independence because it is the right of all people to be free from foreign domination. Prof. Malima wrote that report because he had seen a cherished principle being violated. It is imperative of any government to do justice to all its citizens. Prof. Malima report and the decision taken against him had confirmed one thing, that is, Muslims were second class citizens in their own country. The question was who was preventing justice to be done and for whose interest?
Having realised that it was the Churchs pressure on President Mwinyi which precipitated the decision to remove Prof. Malima from the Ministry of Education, various Muslim organisations pressed on BAKWATA to prepare a memorandum to the government on education disparity between Muslims and Christians and to support Prof. Malima on the issue. This advise was ignored by BAKWATA. Muslims were enraged by the apathy of BAKWATA and word was passed around that BAKWATA should be overthrown at whatever cost and by all means to save Muslims from perpetual bondage. WARSHA sent a petition to the Speaker of National Assembly to look into Muslim marginalisation in education.(17) Pamphlet and leaflets were distributed throughout the country calling upon Muslims to raise against the puppet leadership of BAKWATA even at the point of defying the government. In avoiding to deal with problems affecting Muslims BAKWATA had denied its own existence and was losing credibility fast. BAKWATA soon became emasculated failing to control events and politics involving Muslims.
Conclusion
This narration has included episodes which at times seems unconnected with the main issue. But to understand and comprehend Tanzanias politics one has to transcend beyond demarcations. It is only through such exposure that one can truly grasp issues as they affect Muslims in Tanzania; for in Tanzania Muslims are facing a lot of intricacies and intrigues. It is only by removing the veil and take a glimpse of those hiding behind that one can understand issues of the day. In this way Muslims not only know their friends and enemies but get to document their tarikh (history) for feature generation.
The Grand Mufti of Tanzania Sheikh Hassan bin Amir, Tewa Said Tewa and Aziz Khaki who were president and secretary of the EAMWS respectively were harassed out of their offices by Julius Nyerere simply because they had initiated plans to establish a Muslim University with the assistance of Muslim countries.(18) Ever since the government has subverted any effort for Muslims to develop educational institutions. When Islamic Conference (OIC) wanted to build a Muslim University in Tanzania the government refused to issue permit and as a result the university was built in Mbale, Uganda.
It is taboo to raise the problem of Muslim education in the government or in the seating of the ruling party. It is an unwritten law that, that is a no go area which should never be tackled by anyone irrespective of having a successive Muslims as ministers of education. The powerful Christian lobby prefers these days to have a Muslim Minister of Education in the ministry merely as a show piece. A show piece is a show piece. It has nothing more to offer other than to decorate and please the eye.
The article has also proved that there is in place in Tanzania a deliberate policy by the government to keep Muslims in perpetual bondage by denying them education. This conspiracy has been existing in Tanzania for more than a hundred years and is still being practiced and carried out by the Christian lobby which control the government and all its agencies. And strangely the Muslim minister of education discussing with fellow Muslims, the injustices committed to Muslim youth in terms of discrimination in the Ministry of Education, will privately and in low voice and looking behind his shoulder admit that he is aware of the problem but he has no authority to exercise his administrative powers and establish justice.
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MM,
Abdu Sykes aongee nini na Nyerere?
Chama chake TAA cha starehe na Nyerere ana chama chake cha siasa TANU.
Wapi na wapi.
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WEWE Tanzania Daima hiyo source yako "dear brothers and sisters in islam" ni huyu Mohamed Said
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Darwin,
It does not work that way. Kwa nini unadhani Yericko alikwama? Huwezi kwenda pale kichwa kichwa na kudai mimi ni Yericko Nyerere nipeni tape za baba yangu. Kuna itifaki zake, ndugu yangu, ndio maana nimesema vuteni subira.
Mbona unataka majibu kwa haraka hivyo? halafu ukipewa ndio iweje! hata Mkapa alipewa lakini aliishia mitini!
The Marginalisation of Muslims in the Ministry of Education and the Changes Effected by Prof. Kighoma Ali Malima, 1987
With time the problem of Muslim education waned as other Muslim issues took over public interest. But to the enlightened Muslims the problem remained simmering below the surface only to be brought back to life by Prof. Kighoma Malima in 1987.In 1987 Prof. Malima became the first Muslim Minister of Education. This ministry had consistently been under a Christian minister since independence in 1961. There were accusations that the ministry was a Christian stronghold particularly when at one time a pastor was appointed minister to head the ministry. When Professor Malima became minister of education he thought it was imperative that some changes be effected in the ministry to win back the confidence of Muslims. There were accusations that the ministry was discriminating against Muslim youths barring them from higher institutions of learning and was frustrating career advancement of Muslims functionaries in the ministry.
Table 5
University of Dar es Salaam Student Enrollment
[TABLE="class: cms_table, width: 354"]
[TR]
[TD="width: 32%"]Year[/TD]
[TD="width: 36%"]Christians[/TD]
[TD="width: 32%"]Muslims[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 32%"]1985/86[/TD]
[TD="width: 36%"]85%[/TD]
[TD="width: 32%"]15%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 32%"]1986/87[/TD]
[TD="width: 36%"]84%[/TD]
[TD="width: 32%"]16%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 32%"]1988/89[/TD]
[TD="width: 36%"]82%[/TD]
[TD="width: 32%"]18%[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 32%"]1989/90[/TD]
[TD="width: 36%"]82%[/TD]
[TD="width: 32%"]18%[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
Source: Research Data
Table 6
Muslim and Christian Appointments in the Ministry of Education 1961-1989
[TABLE="class: cms_table, width: 535"]
[TR]
[TD="width: 49%"]Post[/TD]
[TD="width: 51%"]Muslim[/TD]
[TD]Christian[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD]Commissioners[/TD]
[TD="width: 30%"]1[/TD]
[TD="width: 30%"]7[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="width: 49%"]Directors[/TD]
[TD="width: 51%"]6[/TD]
[TD]31[/TD]
[/TR]
[/TABLE]
Source: Research Data
Prof. Malima found out that professionalism and objective decision making had long been forgotten in the ministry. Examinations were marked using candidates actual names instead of numbers as is the norm the world over. This created an environment in which it was easy for Christian candidates to be favoured. Prof. Malima also found that Muslim functionaries were barred from promotions. Prof. Malima had to rectify the discrepancies at the ministry. First he promoted three Muslims whose promotions were long overdue after retiring three Christians whose retirement was long overdue. Prof. Malima also promoted a Muslim to the post of commissioner. This change made the balance of distribution of top post at the ministry between Muslims and Christians to stand at 30% to 70% scales still tipping in favour of Christians.
Yet inspite of this imbalance Christians in the ministry complained that Prof. Malima's promotions were religiously motivated. Prof. Malima found out that the population of Muslim students in primary school was more than 50% but they were few in secondary schools. He realised something must be seriously wrong and he therefore directed that examinations numbers should be used in marking examinations. After these changes the number of Muslims students admitted to secondary schools increased by 40%. Prof. Malima fears were confirmed that there was cheating in the ministry. And that kind of cheating was worse than ordinary cheating. Those who were playing that kind of game were poising to put the country in a dangerous path which could cost the nation dearly.
Prof. Malima wrote a confidential report to the President on the state of affairs he had found in the ministry. In that report (16) Prof. Malima mentioned the stagnation of Muslims and women in education. Prof. Malima warned that if this problem was not solved it was going to create problems to the country in the future. Prof. Malima's report got leaked to the press. This letter by Prof. Malima made him a hero to his own people and a villain to the establishment and to the most fervent enemies of Islam in Tanzania. There was panic in the ministry.
It is said that among those who received the report was the former Vice-President and Prime Minister Joseph Warioba. It was obvious that Nyerere was monitoring President Mwinyi in everything he did. To be able to do what he did Nyerere had to have people deep inside President Mwinyi's establishment. Nyerere and Warioba were outraged by the letter and tried to have him sacked from the government and party in the same style which ousted Jumbe four years earlier. But this time the issue on the agenda was more sensitive and transparent then was the case with Aboud Jumbe which was covered by political intrigues. Muslims were following closely Prof. Malima's fight against the Christian bastion with great interest.
Christian Lobby Persecution Against Prof. Malima
Prof. Malima had said something which was gnawing Muslims for many years. Muslims supported him. This support by Muslims increased hatred against him from the Christian camp. The Christian lobby felt doubly threatened. Already there was tension between Muslims and Christians. With Prof. Malima heading the ministry it could not have the free hand it once enjoyed. A campaign of hate and misinformation against Prof. Malima was unleashed by the press. Prof. Malima was branded a Muslim 'fundamentalist,' accused of religious intolerance and excessive partisanship. President Mwinyi instead of directing the government to investigate the problem of Muslim being purposely denied opportunities he referred the issue to the Party for discussion. This issue went before the Party in Dodoma under the chairmanship of Mwalimu Nyerere for discussion.The Christian lobby in the CCM wanted Prof. Malima to be ousted from the party. Nyerere cunning as he is objected to that decision. He knew that to expel Prof. Malima for speaking on behalf of Muslims would make him an instant hero in the eyes of Muslims and if that happens CCM had no means to deal with such kind of a situation. When the issue went before CCM instead of discussing Malima's report and find solution to the Muslim stagnation, the victim and not the perpetrator of the crime was put on trial by the party. The party did not want to discuss Prof. Malima's report which centred on Muslim's stagnation. CCM was only keen to discuss Prof. Malima. President Mwinyi succumbed to the powerful Christian lobby.
This was the first time the Church through the Christian lobby intervened openly to protest on Muslim appointments. The Christian lobby put forward a proposal that Prof. Malima be expelled from the CCM. In his defence Prof. Malima stood to what he had written in his letter to the president. Prof. Malima's defense was that never had Muslims questioned promotions of Christians why should the Church interfere in his appointments and in his report to the president. Strangely, Nyerere blasted those who were condemned Prof. Malima. He told them that the Church had its own way for too long and it was high time it prepared its followers for changes. Nevertheless Nyerere who had become president behind the president ordered him removed from the Ministry of Education. Prof. Malima was found to have overstepped the norms built in the ministry for many years and was therefore relieved of his post and President Mwinyi appointed the timid late Amrani Mayagila in his place.
This is how unconsciously Muslims are made to conform with the wishes of the Christian lobby. If President Mwinyi would have appointed a Christian to succeed Prof. Malima he would have pulled the carpet under the lobby's feet. That act would have given Muslims more fuel to fan the fire against the Church. But by appointing a weak Muslim to the post he had given the impression that the ministry was still under a Muslim minister while in fact it was not. All decisions were done by the lobby as evidenced by the decisions which were passed to reverse all achievements gained under Prof. Malima. After the removal of Prof. Malima from the ministry the ministry reverted back into marking examination using names of candidates instead of numbers. Muslim student admission to secondary school once again dwindled.
Muslims who were following Prof. Malima's "trial" could not tell whether Mayagila the new Minister of Education was a Muslim or a Christian. It was only after a lot of inquiries that they came to confirm that Mayagila was after all and indeed a Muslim. His fellow Muslims in the party and government were terrified of Nyerere and decided to remain uncommitted to the Muslim problem, yet privately they admitted that what Prof. Malima was saying was true. Prof. Malima did not write that report to the president because of hatred to Christians much as he did not join TANU because he hated the British. TANU fought for independence because it is the right of all people to be free from foreign domination. Prof. Malima wrote that report because he had seen a cherished principle being violated. It is imperative of any government to do justice to all its citizens. Prof. Malima report and the decision taken against him had confirmed one thing, that is, Muslims were second class citizens in their own country. The question was who was preventing justice to be done and for whose interest?
Having realised that it was the Church's pressure on President Mwinyi which precipitated the decision to remove Prof. Malima from the Ministry of Education, various Muslim organisations pressed on BAKWATA to prepare a memorandum to the government on education disparity between Muslims and Christians and to support Prof. Malima on the issue. This advise was ignored by BAKWATA. Muslims were enraged by the apathy of BAKWATA and word was passed around that BAKWATA should be overthrown at whatever cost and by all means to save Muslims from perpetual bondage. WARSHA sent a petition to the Speaker of National Assembly to look into Muslim marginalisation in education.(17) Pamphlet and leaflets were distributed throughout the country calling upon Muslims to raise against the puppet leadership of BAKWATA even at the point of defying the government. In avoiding to deal with problems affecting Muslims BAKWATA had denied its own existence and was losing credibility fast. BAKWATA soon became emasculated failing to control events and politics involving Muslims.
Conclusion
This narration has included episodes which at times seems unconnected with the main issue. But to understand and comprehend Tanzania's politics one has to transcend beyond demarcations. It is only through such exposure that one can truly grasp issues as they affect Muslims in Tanzania; for in Tanzania Muslims are facing a lot of intricacies and intrigues. It is only by removing the veil and take a glimpse of those hiding behind that one can understand issues of the day. In this way Muslims not only know their friends and enemies but get to document their tarikh (history) for feature generation.
The Grand Mufti of Tanzania Sheikh Hassan bin Amir, Tewa Said Tewa and Aziz Khaki who were president and secretary of the EAMWS respectively were harassed out of their offices by Julius Nyerere simply because they had initiated plans to establish a Muslim University with the assistance of Muslim countries.(18) Ever since the government has subverted any effort for Muslims to develop educational institutions. When Islamic Conference (OIC) wanted to build a Muslim University in Tanzania the government refused to issue permit and as a result the university was built in Mbale, Uganda.
It is taboo to raise the problem of Muslim education in the government or in the seating of the ruling party. It is an unwritten law that, that is a no go area which should never be tackled by anyone irrespective of having a successive Muslims as ministers of education. The powerful Christian lobby prefers these days to have a Muslim Minister of Education in the ministry merely as a show piece. A show piece is a show piece. It has nothing more to offer other than to decorate and please the eye.
The article has also proved that there is in place in Tanzania a deliberate policy by the government to keep Muslims in perpetual bondage by denying them education. This conspiracy has been existing in Tanzania for more than a hundred years and is still being practiced and carried out by the Christian lobby which control the government and all its agencies. And strangely the Muslim minister of education discussing with fellow Muslims, the injustices committed to Muslim youth in terms of discrimination in the Ministry of Education, will privately and in low voice and looking behind his shoulder admit that he is aware of the problem but he has no authority to exercise his administrative powers and establish justice.
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Dear brothers and sisters in Islam,
Hivi, mbali na Mohamed Said na Njozi, hakuna muislamu mwengine mtanzania aliyeandika kuhusu dhuluma za waislamu?
Waislamu wote TZ wakiandika vitabu ndio utaamini?
Sio wote, angalau a considerable number, especially wale ambao hawana bagagge ya kulipiza kisasi cha wazee wao kuwekwa dentetion na kufukuzwa na Nyerere kutoka nchini. I take it Mohamed and Njozi represents an extreme element of muslims. I also take that we have moderate muslims in Tanzania. Kwa sababu hii njozi ya Kigoma Malima kuanzisha namba za mitihani imeshakuwa discredited kwa hiyo hii taarifa ya Dear brothers and sisters in Islam si credible.
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Yericko,
Mbona hii nimekuwekea hujasema chochote?
Hujaipenda?
Yericko,
Sisi Waswahili tukishalewa kahawa basi hapa ni ngano tu zinamwagika.
Angalia kipaji changu cha kutunga ngano hapa chini:
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[TD]In response to Kiwanuka's criticism the author published a short biography of Abdulwahid to commemorate twenty years of his death.[1]
This was followed by a memorial by the family in the Party and Government papers.
[2] This was not to pass without incident.
The editor of the Daily News, the government paper, Reginald Mhango rang up Kleist Sykes (Abdulwahid's son) late in the night informing him that he would not publish Abdulwahid's memorial the following day until he got permission from Party headquarters in Dodoma (Mhango na Kleist had gone to school together at Aga Khan Boy's).
The reason given was that his life history touched important events and personalities in the history of the nation.
But somehow the memorial was published in both the Party and government dailies the following morning.
Two years earlier in 1986, after a silence of almost twenty-five years, Ally Sykes gave an interview to a British journalist, Paula Park.
Park wrote a full page article on the family's political history. [3]
When the article was published Ally Sykes received telephone calls from both friends and business associates asking him if he was quoted correctly.
Shortly after, Park was quietly asked by immigration officials to leave the country.
[/TD]
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[TR]
[TD="width: 752, bgcolor: transparent"]Since then the author has been questioned about the authenticity of the work and the stated achievements of Abdulwahid.
Doubts emerged, in spite of the fact that the article carried adequate reference material from old local newspapers, published books, journals and colonial papers.
Abdulwahid's biography understandably was not challenged by anyone, not even the Party historian. This reaction by the Party, of denying part of its own history, while at the same time indicating that it has not documented its past, makes the subject even more intriguing.
The fact that the Party has researched into its own history with inconclusive results means more research by independent scholars needs to be done.
The subject is still open for further research. [/TD]
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[TR]
[TD="width: 752, bgcolor: transparent"]Is this omission a result of neglect or is it a premeditated and calculated decision by the present leadership of the Party which took control of politics in the last years of the struggle beginning at 1958 after the Tabora Conference?
Why is Abdulwahid's contribution and that of other patriot's suppressed?
What do the perpetrators of this campaign want to achieve and in whose interest?[/TD]
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[TR]
[TD="width: 752, bgcolor: transparent"]When one enters the headquarters of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) in Dodoma one cannot fail to notice the famous enlarged photograph of the TANU founding members.
This photograph shows Abdulwahid in dark glasses, standing to the left of Dossa Aziz; both of them in suit and tie. Abdulwahid stands staring at the camera. Former president Julius Kambarage Nyerere in shorts and stockings is sitting on the bench to the left of John Rupia.
Standing just behind Nyerere Saadani Abdu Kandoro. This photograph is the only living memory the Party has of the late Abdulwahid. His name only appears on the general list of the TANU pioneers when there is need to mention the seventeen founder members.[/TD]
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[TD="width: 752, bgcolor: transparent"]There is no way one can do research on TANU and fail to mention Abdulwahid. There is no way one can mention Abdulwahid and not mention Al Jamiatul Islamiyya fi Tanganyika.
There is no way one can mention Al Jamiatul Islamiyya and leave out TANU and vice-versa; and for that matter there is no way one can credit Abdulwahid with any political achievement without first crediting his father Kleist.
There is no way any biographer can research on Nyerere's life and ignore the support of the people who were close to him and their influence on him.
Those in power think that to mention them as pioneers of the independence movement is to evoke deep sentiments from the people and the general Muslim community in Tanzania.
Much as Muslims fought for uhuru, the gains or even spillovers have been very little to them. It is better for the powers that be that those sentiments remain buried.
And the only way to ensure this is to try to erase that important part of Tanganyika's history.[/TD]
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[1] SeeM. Said, ‘Founder of a Political Movement: Abdulwahid K. Sykes 1924-1968', Africa Events, London September,1988, pp. 38-41.
[2]See Daily News,23 rd October, 1988. Also Uhuru, 23 rd October, 1988.
[3]" ‘An Unsung Hero?' Africa Events, London,November 1986 p.48.
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Jasusi,
Hivi sasa kuandika si sana kama kusema.
Waislam wanazungumza sana kuhusu hali hii.
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Nimepata bahati ya kuwaona baadhi ya hawa wazee na baba yangu kanisimulia habari nyingi katika harakati zao za uhuru. Anachokisema Mohamed Said kuhusu historia ya Tanganyika upande wa wazee wake ni ukweli mtupu.
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Sheikh wangu Mohammed!, hii inatosha kabisa kujibu maswali mia ya Mwanakijiji.Iwapo haitoshi basi hakuna kinachowatosha zaidi ya aibu kutokana na ujinga walio nao.Labda walitaka uwe na despatch iliyo na saini ya Nyerere.Lakini hili la despatch ni kwa ajili ya hili tu.Pindi wakiambiwa Uamsho ni boko haram hawana haja hata ya kuhoji huamini mia kwa mia.
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Ami,
Kutokana na mazungumzo haya na Prof. Haroub ndipo Nyerere akakubali
na yeye kueleza maisha yake ya siasa.
Prof. Haroub ndiye akawa mratibu wa kamati ya wasomi watakaofanya kazi
hiyo.
Ilikuwa ni kumhoji Nyerere na hawa wasomi wataandika.
Bahati mbaya Nyerere akafa kabla ya kazi kuanza.
Hata hivyo Prof Haroub aliamua kuandelea na kazi ile.
Bahati mbaya na yeye Allah akamwita.
Kuna kitabu kinaitwa ''Farewell to the President'' kimeandikwa kwa heshima
yake baada ya Prof Haroub kufariki.
Habari za kuandika maisha ya Nyerere zimo mle katika utangulizi.
Hata hivyo mkewe Bi Saida Yahya Othman anaendelea na kazi hii akisaidiana
na Prof. Shivji.
Lakini chanzo ya haya yote ni kitabu cha Sheikh Ali Muhsin Barwan wa iliyokuwa
Zanzibar Nationalist Party (ZNP) ''Conflict and Harmony in Zanzibar'' maarufu kwa
jina la Hizbu na kitabu changu.
Vitabu hivi vyote viwili vimekuja na mengi mapya ambayo hayakuwa yakijulikana.
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Huu mjadala hapa ulipofika naufananisha na tukio katika seeraha ya Mtume swalaLlaahu alayhi wa sallam.
Makuraish waliitana kuja kusikia viroja vya Mtume kuwa amefika Baitul Maqdis,kupanda mbinguni na kurudi Makka usiku huo huo.Badala ya kuzomewa kama akina abu Jahal walivyotaka ili iwe mwisho wa Muhammad basi ikawa jukwaa la kupata wafuasi wapya waliofahamu ukweli wa utume wake.Alijibu maswali yote kuhusiana na muonekano wa baitil Maqdis ambako hakuwahi kufika.Akatoa co ordinates za msafara wa maquraish waliokuwa wakirudi kutoka msafara wa kibiashara na yale yaliyowasibu njiani ikiwa ni pamoja na ngamia wao mmoja kuvunjika mguu.Akataja na muda msafara huo ungeingia mjini.
Hapa naona Mohammed sasa amesimama anapokea mikono ya shukrani tu kutoka kwa wanachama wapya.
Mohammed sema Alhamdulillaah alaa kulli haal
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Wewe Mzee kwa kanuni zako za kujua ukweli hakuna unachoweza kukiamini.
Hebu onesha mfano jinsi unavyopata ukweli wa yale unayoyaamini.
Tujaalie Mohammed aseme Ami alikuwepo siku hiyo akasikia utasema nini?.Ndio itakuwa basi umetosheka?.
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Angalia matatizo hayo basi!
Miaka yote hiyo baada ya uhuru ukitaka kitu ni lazima uvae shati la mikono mirefu.Huu ni mfumo aliotuachia Nyerere.Watu wa mfumo ndio waliojazana pale TBC.Wanaogopa wakizitoa kanda za mwalimu mambo ndio yanazidi kukorogeka.
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