By
Jasusi
Kiongozi wa kwanza wa nchi yeyote huitwa founding father. Marekani: George Washington. Singapore: Lee Kuan Yew
Ghana: Kwame Nkrumah. Tanzania: Julius Nyerere. Malaysia Tunku Abdul Rahman. etc. etc.
By
Kisindika 
Unadhihirisha ujinga wako kwa kuongelea vitu ambavyo huvijui. Angalia list hii ya watu wanaotambulika kama Baba wa Taifa wa Mataifa yao na uniambie kama kuna uhusiano wowote wa wao kuwa viongozi wa kwanza wa Taifa huru: Hii ni mifano michache tu
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Country[/TD]
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Father of the Nation[/TD]
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Source[/TD]
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Cuba[/TD]
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Carlos Manuel de Céspedes del Castillo[/TD]
[TD]Thomas, Hugh 1971.
Cuba, or the pursuit of freedom. Eyre & Spottiswoode, London. Revised and abridged edition 2001, Picador, London. Chapters 16 & 17.[/TD]
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Croatia[/TD]
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Ante Starčević[/TD]
[TD]Tanner, Marcus (2001).
Croatia: A Nation Forged in War (2nd ed.). Yale University Press. p. 102.[/TD]
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Chile[/TD]
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Bernardo O'Higgins[/TD]
[TD]Harvey, Robert (2000).
Liberators: Latin America's Struggle for Independence. New York: The Overlook Press[/TD]
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India[/TD]
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Mahatma Gandhi[/TD]
[TD]The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Government of India (CWMG), Vol I, p. 150[/TD]
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Bolivia[/TD]
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Simón Bolívar[/TD]
[TD]Bushnell, David.
The Liberator, Simón Bolívar. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1970[/TD]
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Israel[/TD]
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Theodor Herzl[/TD]
[TD]Brenner, Michael, and Shelley Frisch.
Zionism: A Brief History (2003)[/TD]
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Sierra Leone[/TD]
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Thomas Peters[/TD]
[TD]Sanneh (2001), p. 50[/TD]
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France[/TD]
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Clovis 1[/TD]
[TD]Brown, Peter (2003).
The Rise of Western Christendom. Malden, MA, USA: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.. p. 137[/TD]
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Ireland[/TD]
[TD]the seven signatories of the
Proclamation of the Irish Republic:
Patrick Pearse,
James Connolly,
Éamonn Ceannt,
Tom Clarke,
Seán Mac Diarmada,
Thomas MacDonagh, and
Joseph Mary Plunkett.
Robert Emmett is also considered a founding father[/TD]
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Netherland[/TD]
[TD]Prince
William I of Orange (1533–1584)[/TD]
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Sasa huoni kwenye hiyo mifano niliyotoa kwamba si lazima kiongozi wa kwanza wa nchi aitwe Baba wa Taifa? Kuhusu ni nani anayestahili nimesema anayestahili ni Kleist Sykes kwa sababu yeye ndie muasisi wa TAA, yeye ndie aliyeweka misngi madhubuti ya chama cha kupigania uhuru wa Tanganyika na yeye ndiye aliyejitolea kwa hali na mali kuhakikisha kwamba chama cha TAA kinaenea Tanganyika nzima kwa malengo ya kupigania uhuru wa Mtanganyika. Chini yake, hotuba maalum ya kutaka Watanganyika wapewe nafasi katika maamuzi ya nchi yao iliandaliwa na kupelekwa UN. Ilikataliwa bila sababu za msingi lakini ni hotuba hiyo hiyo ikatumiwa tena wakati Nyerere alipokwenda UN kudai Uhuru wa Tanganyika. Hivyo kazi kubwa ilifanywa na huyu Kleist Sykes na baadaye ikaendelezwa na mwanawe Abulwahid Sykes baada ya kifo cha baba yake.
Habari hizo zinapatikana kwenye links hizi:
TAA strikes fear in colonial hearts
The Sykes legacy lives on