Unayosema yana kaukweli fulani ila do not let your wrong opinion overrule the truth.Unazungumzia hili jambo kiushabiki sana ktk mrengo wa dini ndo maana tumekushtukia ,haijatokea unapotaja the so called mashujaa ukataja wakristo.Unapojaribu kuwazungumzia wapigania ukombozi mbona kuwataji wale wanaojulikana kiukweli kama Mirambo wale wa vita ya majimaji nk.Pia Tanzania haikuwa koloni la Uingereza bali ilikuwa Protectorate baada ya vita ya pili ya dunia hadi hapo tutakapokuwa na uwezo wa kujitawala..acha kujishaua sana.Kubwa hakuna ubora unaoweza kuonekana kati ya dini zote, ila ubora upo ndani ya muumini wa dini hiyo kwani ni mambo ya kiimani.
Mount Kibo,
Ninakuwekea hapa chini habari za Wakristo walopigania uhuru wa Tanganyika na ni kutoka katika hii paper niliyoweka hapa ukumbini:
This piece of information here below stands as witness to the rich history which for many years remained unknown:
- ''Abdulwahid and his friend Ahmed Rashad Ali went to a house in the suburbs which was in darkness and surrounded by Mau Mau guards. He was expected. Kenyatta was informed and came out of the house to receive him. This meeting took place under the cover of darkness probably in Eastleigh in the suburbs of Nairobi where most of the 1950s Mau Mau meetings before the emergency took place. Ahmed Rashad Ali recalls that he heard Kenyatta calling Abdulwahid by name. Kenyatta had known Ally Sykes in Nairobi in 1946 and it is most probable that Abdulwahid's work was made easy by that acquaintance. Ahmed Rashad Ali met Kenyatta and they shook hands. After introductions, Kenyatta, Abdulwahid, Fred Kubai, Bildad Kaggia and Kungu Karumba went to another room where the meeting took place. Ahmed Rashad remained outside with a guard.[1]
Another meeting was proposed by Kenyatta to be held in Arusha and TAA was to be presented by Abdulwahid Sykes,
Steven Mhando and Dossa Aziz. This meeting never took place because ''Operation Anvil'' came into operation soon after.
[1] This information is from Ahmed Rashad Ali broadcaster for Radio Free Africa in Cairo a radio station set up by Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt in 1950s as propaganda machinery for African countries fighting to liberate their countries from colonialism. In that position Ahmed Rashad came to know many freedom fighters including Jomo Kenyatta. For more information on Ahmed Rashad Ali see
Maisha na Nyakati za Abdulwahid Sykes (1924 – 1968) Historia Iliyofichwa Kuhusu Harakati za Waislam Dhidi ya Ukoloni wa Waingereza katika Tanganyika, Phoenix Publishers Nairobi 2002 pp 199 – 205. Ahmed Rashad Ali Many years later had an audience with President Kenyatta at the State House in Nairobi. Surprisingly Kenyatta remembered him as the person who accompanied Abdulwahid to that meeting in Nairobi in 1950. The President called his official photographer who took their photograph posing together. This photograph decorated the living room of Ahmed Rashad Ali for many years. President Kenyatta also presented him with a tie with the national colours of Kenya.
- The struggle against British colonialism in Tanganyika was fought by many and from every angle. There were the known front liners, patriots of the TAA like Abdulwahid Sykes and his young brother Ally, Dossa Aziz, John Rupia,[1] Steven Mhando, Dr. Vedasto Kyaruzi, Hamza Mwapachu (1913 – 1962)[2], Idd Faiz Mafongo,[3] Mshume Kiyate,[4] Joseph Kasella Bantu,[5] and Zuberi Mtemvu in Dar es Salaam, Ally Migeyo,[6] Saadan Abdu Kandoro and Paul Bomani from the Lake Region, Yusuf ''Ngozi'' Olotu [7] from Kilimanjaro, Bilali Rehani Waikela,[8] Germano Pacha, Fundi Muhindi from Tabora, Yusuf Chembera and Salum Mpunga from Lindi, Hamisi Heri, Sheikh Rashid Sembe,[9] Mohamed Kajembe from Tanga… the list is long. There were also the not so well known like Lameck Bogohe who is also in the list of founding members of TANU. [10]
[1] Abdulwahid Sykes, Ally Sykes, Dossa Aziz and
John Rupia were the financiers of the movement from 1950 to 1961 when independence was achieved.
[2] See Andrew Bomani in
Raia Mwema of 19 October 2012 ''Hamza Mwapachu na Nyerere Kuelekea Uhuru wa Tanganyika.'' Hamza Mwapachu and Abdulwahid Sykes are the ones who recruited Nyerere into colonial politics in 1952 when Nyerere came to Dar es Salaam to work as a teacher at St. Francis College, Pugu. Hamza Mwapachu has been honoured in Kenya. Through efforts by Ali Mwakwere after learning that Mwapachu was a fellow Digo and that he was the first Digo to attend Makerere College in 1943 Mwakwere had a street in Kwale District his own home area named after Hamza Kibwana Mwapachu.
[3] Idd Faiz Mafongo was among the first 20 members who attended the first TANU meeting in August 1954. He was the Al Jamiatul Islamiyyya and TANU treasurer at the same time. As TANU treasurer he was responsible for collecting funds for Nyerere's first trip to UNO in 1955.
[4] Mshume Kiyate a rich fish monger at Kariakoo Market and a strong member of TANU Elders Council adopted Nyerere as his own son in 1955. Mshume Kiyate was among TANU financiers. In 1964 when the army mutinied and Nyerere came back to power after the army was disarmed by the British TANU held a mass demonstration in support of Nyerere in which Nyerere gave a speech. Mshume Kiyate was the elder politician who was nominated by the party to go up the stage with Nyerere to cloth him with a traditional Swahili attire known as ''kitambi'' as show of love, support and respect to him. Mshume Kiyate died a poor man failing even to pay his medical bills. His contribution to TANU and support to Nyerere remain unrecognised. Efforts to name Tandamti Street which he lived during the struggle after him has been resisted by City Council authorities.
[5] Kasella Bantu was the one who took Nyerere to Abdulwahid Sykes's house to introduce them in 1952.
[6] G. Mutahaba,
Portrait of a Nationalist: The Life of Ali Migeyo, East African Publishing House, 1969.
[7] Yusuf Ngozi was responsible for founding TANU in Kilimanjaro in 1955 despite of efforts by the colonial government to sabotage the party. History will remember Yusuf Ngozi for organising the Chagga to register as voters in the hated Tripartite Vote of 1958 which was known as ''Kura Tatu'' in which an African was required to vote for a European, Asian and African candidate. Yusuf Ngozi died a poor man in 1989.
[8] Bilali Rehani Waikela one of the TANU founder members in Western Province in 1955 and Regional Secretary of the East African Muslim Welfare Society (EAMWS) was detained by Nyerere in 1964 for "mixing religion and politics." His personal papers were of great help in understanding the EAMWS crisis of 1968 and the reasons why Nyerere detained prominent sheikhs and banned the society in 1968. A documentary of his political life has been made and although not officially recognized as a patriot, Muslims now consider him as one of the heroes of the independence movement. For more information see Mohamed Said, "In Praise of Ancestors,"
Africa Events (London) March/April 1988.
[9] Sheikh Rashid Sembe (1912 – 1999) was among the TANU inner circle in Tanga who with Julius Nyerere plotted to circumvent TANU majority membership who where against contesting the Tripartite Election of 1958. This interesting story has never been made public. Other members to the Tanga Strategy were
Amos Kissenge, Mwalimu Kihere and Hamisi Kheri. At the Tabora Conference of 1958 Nyerere was able to convince TANU to participate in the election. The outcome of this was resignation of Zuberi Mtemvu from TANU and formation of African National Congress (ANC) to oppose TANU and soon after a faction detached itself from TANU to form All Muslim National Union of Tanganyika (AMNUT). Nyerere referred to this story publicly only once in his lifetime and it was in passing. For details see M. Said ibid.
The Life and Times of Abdulwahid Sykes…pp. 233-252.
[10] Lameck Bogohe after many years of oblivion wrote an article (
Nipashe 7 Julai 2010) giving details of his contribution in the founding of TANU IN 1954.
- There were also Kenyans in TAA Executive Committee prominent among them were Dome Okochi Budohi, Patrick Aoko and C Ongalo. These three Kenyans in the TAA executive committee held office alongside Abdulwahid Sykes and Nyerere and were among the early members of the African National Union (TANU) when the party was formed in 1954.[1]
[1]Tanganyika Standard, 19 th June 1953.
Mount Kibo,
Jifunze kusoma kwa makini hii itakuwezesha kuhesabika katika watu makini na hoja zako zitapata thamani.
Huna sababu ya kufeli mtihani wakati majibu ya maswali unayo katika karatasi ya mtihani.
Soma hayo majina katika wino ulokoza.