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Inawezekana Mzee Peter Kisumo hakuwa mbali na ukweli. Nimetoa kipande kifuatacho kwenye Wikipedia:
http://http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaga_people
Hebu pima maelezo yake kisha utafsiri kama matukio haya yangeliwajengea uswahiba Nyerere na Marealle
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In 1952, the Chagga held an election to elect Mangi Mkuu, the "Paramount Chief", to look after their affairs and speak with colonial administrators on behalf of the Chagga.[2] Thomas Marealle of Marangu won the election, defeating divisional chiefs M. H. Abdiel Shangali of Hai and John Ndaskoi Maruma of Rombo. Another divisional chief, Petro Itosi Marealle of Vunjo, withdrew from consideration before the election.
Marealle consolidated power from the other three Chagga divisional chieftains, thus making the Chagga more powerful and in control of their own affairs. His capital was in Marangu.
But Marealle's downfall occurred during Tanganyika's struggle for independence, for two main reasons:First, He lost support among western educated people. When Chagga students at Makerere University criticized him in their college magazine, he publicly humbled them when they came home, in an "old" tribal way.[clarification needed] He placed his faith in Petro Njau, the elderly astute party organizer who had put him in. From 1958 Njau set himself the task of enlisting the support of the old conservatives and the clan elders. This was a spurious return to the great tribal past. But Mangi Mkuu believed and trusted implicitly in him, and in the exaggerated accounts of popularity which Njau reported.
Second, Mangi Mkuu crossed swords with T.A.N.U on his home ground of Kilimanjaro. He still supported the national aims of T.A.N.U for Tanganyika. He continued to support Julius Nyerere personally, as the national leader long after he had begun to deal summarily with local T.A.N.U critics at home, perhaps because these critics did not need to be taken seriously, since they were insignificantly unrepresentative of the people.
In 1957-58 the British Administration were belatedly trying to organize a council of Chiefs in Tanganyika as a delaying action against T.A.N.U, Mangi Mkuu wrote the governor asking that Nyerere himself should be invited to address the chiefs. The request was refused. It was not until 1959, when he was fighting for his political life, that Mangi Mkuu cut across Nyerere personally and cut across the national movement as such. In January 1959, by which time he was sharply on the defensive at home, Mangi Mkuu criticized Nyerere's visit to Moshi to hold an open-air TANU meeting in the town. A few months later he circularized the chiefs on the mountain, threatening to sack them if they supported TANU.
In the local field of Chaga politics, however the break came earlier. It did not come from TANU branches as such which, though they had started in 1955 on the mountain, had made little headway among the people. It came from Machame, from the chiefly rival whom Mangi Mkuu had supplanted in 1951. Chief Abdieli Shangali threw the weight of his authority behind his son-in-law, Solomon Eliufoo, and this was the decisive factor. Eliufoo, a commoner from one of the oldest clans in Machame, and a Lutheran-trained teacher, was abroad in the United States and Great Britain from 1953 to 1956. In 1957, he returned as a teacher and joined the TANU branch in Machame. In 1958, he entered politics; he became a nominated member of the Chagga Council, being nominated by Hai divisional council of which his father-in-law, Chief Abdieli Shangali, was chairman. The same year, he was elected member of the legislative council in Dar es Salaam on the TANU ticket.
..hapa nadhani national politics ziliingiliana na local politics.
..fuatilia kote ambako nime-highlight with red or black.
..Marealle alianza kwa kumshinda Shangali wa Machame ktk kuchagua Mangi Mkuu.
..baadaye Marealle akawa hana tatizo TANU au Mwalimu Nyerere.
..makala inasema " he[marealle] still supported the national aims of TANU for Tanganyika."
..tena wanaeleza kwamba alikuwa hata anam-support Mwalimu Nyerere "personally."
..mwaka 1957-58 Marealle aliandika barua kwa gavana akipendekeza Mwalimu Nyerere apewe nafasi ya kuhutubia Council of Chiefs. Hii council of Chiefs ilianzishwa na wakoloni kwa lengo la kupunguza kasi ya TANU. Marealle aliteuliwa kuwa mwenyekiti wa hiyo Council.
..Pamoja na Marealle kuwa ktk council ya ma-chief, iliyoanzishwa na wakoloni, lakini bado tunaona anataka Mwalimu Nyerere apewe nafasi ya kuzungumza na machief na kuwasilisha hoja za TANU.
..Pia kuna taarifa kwamba hotuba ya Chief Marealle kule UN ilisisitiza matanio ya wa-Tanganyika kuwa huru.
..matatizo yalianza baada ya Abdieli Shangali,aliyeshindwa na Thomas Marealle ktk uchaguzi wa kumpata Mangi Mkuu,kuingia ktk siasa za TANU akim-support Solomon Eliufoo.
MY TAKE:
..Wamachame na Wamarangu wana matatizo yao ya kihistoria. Kuna kipindi jamii hizo mbili zilikuwa hata hazioleani.
..Kama TANU iliingia Uchagani kwa msaada wa familia ya Chief Shangali wa Machame,basi bila shaka kutakuwa na mgogoro na Chief Marealle wa Marangu.
..kwa mtizamo wangu tatizo halikuwa Uhuru wa Tanganyika, bali ni ule mgogoro wa Kihistoria kati ya Wamarangu na Wamachame.
..Kuna habari za kuanzishwa kwa Chama cha Siasa cha Wachagga na tetesi kwamba Mwalimu Nyerere alikuwa akikiunga mkono chama hicho,lakini baada ya kutimiza malengo yake akakitupa mkono.
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