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Mwalimu in 1950s Dar


By MOHAMED SAID


Posted Sunday, October 12 2008 at 11:46

It is a pity that the late Mwalimu Julius Nyerere did not reveal much about his early life in Dar es Salaam of the 1950s, where he came to as a budding 30-year-old politician fresh from Edinburgh University.
One can only speculate why Nyerere was secretive about those days, the period when the Tanganyika African Association (TAA) was transformed into the Tanganyika African National Union (Tanu).
The closest Nyerere came to speaking about that period was in 1985 at the Diamond Jubilee Hall where, in an emotional farewell speech before he stepped down from the presidency, he paid tribute to "the Wazee wa Dar es Salaam" who supported him from the day Tanu was founded in 1954.
Mwalimu mentioned two people forgotten in the history of Tanganyika - Abdulwahid Sykes and Dossa Aziz. Abdulwahid was TAA president in 1953 and was among the four financiers of the movement along with his young brother Ally, Dossa and John Rupia.
Abdulwahid died young in 1968 but Dossa lived on to a ripe old age - though, sadly he died a poor and lonely man at Mlandizi in 1997.
However, they did not benefit from the fruits of Independence, for which they had worked so hard, nor were their names associated with Tanu, Nyerere or the independence movement.
One could write volumes about the contributions and sacrifices made by the two Sykes brothers and Dossa; and the elders like Mwinjuma Mwinyikambi, Kiyate Mshume, Jumbe Tambaza, Sheikh Hassan bin Amir and Sheikh Suleiman Takadir to mention only a few.
In those days, these names made up who's who of the municipality. They were the rich and the famous of the town.
Dar es Salaam was then divided into four areas: Kariakoo, Gerezani, Kisutu and Mission Quarter. Kisutu was the oldest and had the oldest mosque in Dar es Salaam, the Mwinyikheri Akida Mosque, which is more than 100 years.
Across Morogoro Road was Kariakoo, which still exists, and the first street stretching from the north to the south parallel to Mnazi Mmoja was a narrow road - New Street - where the headquarters of the African Association stood, a building of stone and lime built in the 1930s through self-help during the leadership of Mzee Bin Sudi and Kleist Sykes, president and secretary respectively.
It was in this building that Tanu was born in 1954. The building was situated at the point where Kariakoo Street and New Street intersect. The house still stands.
To the west of Kariakoo was the Mission Quarter, an exclusive African mission area set aside by the British to separate the Christian minority from the Muslim majority in the town.
Even street names in Mission Quarter had names of settlements in Tanganyika where missionaries had managed to penetrate and establish themselves. Street names such as Masasi, Likoma, Ndanda, Muhonda, Muheza and Magila have survived to this day.
This was the only area in Dar es Salaam where missionaries managed to build a chapel. African Christians were confined to this area. And if a Christian ventured into Kariakoo, a majority Muslim area, to ask for a room, he would be advised to try his luck at Mission Quarter.
Mwalimu Nyerere thus arrived in a town that was structured along lines of prejudices.
Two prominent Africans and members of the African Association who lived in Mission Quarter during the emergence of nationalist politics were Thomas Plantan, elected president of the African Association once, and John Rupia a rich African businessman.
Rupia's house, situated at Likoma Street and Magila, is where the African Association was founded in 1929. The house still stands today though not in its original structure.
An interesting fact about Mission Quarter is that it had the only printing press owned by an African - Mashado Plantan - which the pro-African Association newspaper Zuhra was published. This paper came to be Tanu and Nyerere's first mouthpiece.
On the west of Kariakoo was Gerezani, home of Omari Londo, Ally Sykes, Zuberi Mtemvu, Mashado Plantan, Muhsin Mende and Dossa Aziz.
These were the first patriots from Gerezani to come into contact with Nyerere. Zuberi Mtemvu, Mashado Plantan and Muhsin Mende were later to resign from Tanu to form an opposition party, the Tanganyika African Congress, and the three became bitter opponents of Tanu and Nyerere.
Among prominent personalities from Kariakoo the young Nyerere interacted with were Mzee Mshume Kiyate, Sheikh Hassan bin Ameir, Sheikh Suleiman Takadir, Idd Faizi, Idd Tosiri, Abdulwahid Sykes and Dossa Aziz.
Abdulwahid Sykes was 28, two years younger than Julius Nyerere, when one afternoon Nyerere came to Abdulwahid's house at Stanley Street (now Max Mbwana Street) accompanied by Bantu Kasella Bantu.
It is said Mwalimu Nyerere had a letter of introduction from Hamza Mwapachu (who was still in Britain studying) to Abdulwahid Sykes.
At that time, Sykes was the president of the Tanganyika African Association. The fact that Abdulwahid Sykes preceded Nyerere in the presidency of the TAA is a point often not mentioned even by Chama cha Mapinduzi.
This denies the history of nationalist politics in Tanganyika, "friendly silent power struggle" within the association between the incumbent and well established townsman Abdulwahid Sykes, son of a prosperous businessman and founder member of African Association, Kleist Sykes and the unassuming challenge from an unknown school teacher from Butiama, Julius Nyerere.
It denies the young generation inside information of what TAA did to outsmart the British and send Mwalimu Nyerere to the United Nations to address the Trusteeship Council. Most importantly, it denies them knowledge of the burning issues that were discussed at the "Sunday baraza."
This weekly meeting was generally held either at Dossa's house on Congo Street or at Abdulwahid's house on Stanley Street (now Max Mbwana), where Nyerere used to come every Sunday to meet the TAA leadership and discuss the politics of the day.
Various schemes against the British were hatched from these two houses. The meetings at TAA headquarters in New Street, now Lumumba, was merely to rubber stamp the decisions arrived at the Sunday barazas.
Any student of Tanganyika's nationalist politics wishing to trace Mwalimu Nyerere's formative years needs to walk down this path. It is saddening that it has been neglected by researchers.
In 1963, Mwalimu Nyerere talked to Lady Judith Listowel, who had come to Tanganyika to research a book she was writing (The Making of Tanganyika). Lady Judith was the wife of William Mare, the last governor of Gold Coast (Ghana).
She was put in contact with Ally Sykes by Peter Colmore in Nairobi. Lady Judith came to Dar es Salaam and interviewed Abdulwahid and Ally Sykes and Julius Nyerere.
In that book, Mwalimu paid a glowing tribute to the nationalists who had preceded him in the political arena. A copy of the book, which is out of print, can be found at the University of Dar es Salaam Library or from Ally Sykes.
There are reports that Nyerere was under pressure to write his memoir but he declined. It is reported that Mwalimu even refused to meet an Oxford University Press representative who wanted to discuss the writing of his memoir.
It was only when Mwalimu Nyerere was severely criticised in two books - Conflict and Harmony in Zanzibar by Ali Muhsin Barwan and The Life and Times of Abdulwahid Sykes 1924 -1968 by this writer - that he succumbed to pressure and told his confidants to form a committee to which he would talk about his life, from which interaction they would be able to write his biography. But although the committee was formed, it never got off the ground as Mwalimu was in failing health and soon died on October 14, 1999.
But equally important in tracing Mwalimu's steps from Butiama particularly after the founding of TANU in 1954 is the house of veteran politician and former secretary of the TAA Mzee Clement Mtamila who was overthrown from TAA leadership along with the president Thomas Plantan in a coup de grace led by Abdulwahid Sykes and Hamza Mwapachu in 1949.
The house of Mtamila was, situated at the junction of Kipata, (now Kleist Sykes Street) and Sikukuu Street now Zaramo Street.
In those days the president of the party was not necessarily the chairman of the executive committee.
In 1954 Clement Mtamila was the chairman of the executive committee of TANU.
It was in this house Nyerere then president of TANU presented the letter from Father Walsh in which he was given the ultimatum of either to continue to teach at the Catholic school in Pugu or resign to pursue politics.
This important meeting in which Mwalimu Nyerere decided to resign from teaching and work for TANU was chaired by Clement Mtamila in this house. Other members of the TANU Executive Committee present at that meeting were: John Rupia, Oscar Kambona, Bibi Tatu Binti Mzee and Bibi Titi Mohamed.
The sitting room in Mzee Mtamila's up to late 1960s had many black and white photographs depicting Tanganyika's history. The photographs depicted Nyerere's early days in TANU showing him addressing the people from a make shift platform at Mnazi Mmoja Grounds overlooking where now stands the Adult Education Centre.
The open space opposite Mnazi Mmoja Grounds was John Rupia's plot which he later donated to TANU to build the centre. Mzee Mtamila's house is no more. It has given way to a high rise building now common in Gerezani, Mwalimu's history buried with it in the rubble of stones, lime, dust and rusted corrugated iron sheets.
Another place which Mwalimu Nyerere frequented during those early days was the Kariakoo Market. Kariakoo Market building housing the market resembled a huge shack made of steel, concrete and corrugated iron sheets.
The market was busy around the clock with all kind of business being carried inside the market and within its environs. One could tell the tribe of the traders from the kind of trade he or she was engaged in.
The Mashomvi were selling fish, the Zaramo were into coconut business, the Nyamwezi particularly women confined themselves to selling dried tobacco leaves and snuff, and their men were selling yams grown in Kigamboni.
The Luguru were into oranges and vegetables. Arabs owned butchers and sold flour, cereals and spices.
This retail business Arabs were in competition with Indians. Kariakoo Market was a fertile place for TANU to recruit members and Abdulwahid did not lose that opportunity. Among the traders to support TANU from Kariakoo Market was Mzee Mshume Kiyate.
At that time in 1952 when Abdulwahid Sykes met Mwalimu Julius Nyerere he was working as Market Master of Karikoo Market. His office was at the junction of Tandamti Street (now Mshume Kiyate) and Swahili Street.
The afternoon after resigning from teaching Mwalimu Nyerere took a bus from Pugu and got off at Kariakoo which was the main stand and went straight to Abdulwahid's office to give him the news.
Abdulwahid accommodated Mwalimu Nyerere at his house at Stanley Street until when Mwalimu left for to Butiama to get married to Mama Maria.
This house exists today but has undergone massive renovations altering its original look. Shariff Attas who was working as market auctioneer recalls that he used to escort Mwalimu Nyerere from Abdulwahid's office to Sykes' house for lunch wait for him and come back together.
Mwalimu would sit in Abdulwahid's office reading The Tanganyika Standard. After closing of business at 4.30 Abdulwahid and Nyerere would come back home together. Many people in Dar es Salaam first saw and therefore came to know Mwalimu Nyerere during that time.
During this period Abdulwahid nearly lost his job as Market Master when Nyerere and TANU's message began to be understood by the people. Abdulwahid was accused of selling TANU cards in Her Majesty's Office.
Shariff Attas recalls the thrilling shouting match between Abdulwahid Sykes and the white colonial officer inside Sykes's office when Abdulwahid in his impeccable English and without fear took out his TANU card and challenged the mzungu to take him to court if he feels he has contravened any law and TANU was not a legally registered party.
The veranda which used to be a meeting place where TANU leadership used to hold its meeting and where many people came to know Mwalimu Julius Nyerere is now a bazaar, the people who come to the place to buy and sell completely unaware of its rich history.
But the liveliest meeting place – Mwalimu Nyerere frequented outside the ‘Sunday Baraza' at Congo and Stanley Street at Dossa's house and Sykes' place was at Sheikh Suleiman Takadir's auction mart.
Sheikh Takadir was the Chairman of the TANU Elders Council the powerful body which had people like Mshume Kiyate, Mwinjuma Mwinyikambi, Jumbe Tambaza and others as members.
Sheikh Takadir was an auctioneer and was conducting his business from a house situated at Nyamwezi Street belonging to Mwinjuma Digosi, a jumbe appointed by the government.
The auction used to be the meeting place of TANU members. TANU members used to meet at Sheikh Takadir's premises to drink coffee discuss politics and while away the time.
When Digosi, the landlord realised that Nyerere was visiting Sheikh Takadir at his place of business, he asked Takadir to seek accommodation elsewhere.
He told Sheikh Takadir that he could no longer have him as a tenant because he as a jumbe appointed by the government cannot allow his house to be a meeting place of ‘troublemakers' like Nyerere and other riff - raffs.
Sheikh Takadir had no choice but to shift his business to Msimbazi Street. Sheikh Suleiman Takadir was to oppose Nyerere's decision to participate in the controversial tripartite election of 1958 and the two became bitter enemies never to reconcile resulting into expulsion of Sheikh Takadir from TANU.
But one the most touching story of sacrifice, love and commitment to Mwalimu Nyerere, TANU and the struggle is that of Mzee Mshume Kiyate. Mwalimu Nyerere was to call Mshume's commitment to the struggle – the TANU spirit.
This story was retold to the author by Ahmed Rashad Ali who said he was at Msasani, Mwalimu's residence on that day with Dossa Aziz and Lucy Lameck when Nyerere told them the level of commitment which members of TANU had for the struggle.
There is a story of Said Chamwenyewe one of the earliest members to have joined TANU who mobilized the first members for TANU from Rufiji his home town when it was difficult to have a full register of members to fulfill a condition which would have made TANU qualify as a party and hence be registered.
Chamwenyewe used to ride a bicycle from Dar es Salaam to Rufiji to mobilize membership for TANU travelling through a forest infested with lions and other wild animals. But Mwalimu Nyerere had no fitting story to tell than that of Mzee Mshume Kiyate.
Mzee Mshume Kiyate was a fishmonger at Kariakoo Market. One day Mwalimu Nyerere was on his way to Kariakoo Market walking from Magomeni Majumba Sita where he was residing.
Upon reaching Mwembe Togwa (now known as Fire) at the junction of (Ronald Cameroon Road (now United Nations Road) and Morogoro Road Mwalimu Nyerere met Mshume Kiyate.
Mwalimu Nyerere told Mshume Kiyate that he was going to Kariakoo Market to buy provisions but he did have a single sent in his pocket. Mshume Kiyate dipped his hand into his pocket and gave Mwalimu Nyerere two hundred shillings.
At that time with two hundred shillings one could purchase a six bedroom house at Kariakoo. Mshume Kiyate from that day volunteered to provide food for Mwalimu' family and he did this until 1961 when Tanganyika achieved its independence and Mwalimu Nyerere became Prime Minister.
There is a very famous photograph of Mwalimu Nyerere with an old man in coat, kanzu and Muslim cap taken in 1958 during the tripartite elections.
The photograph shows Mwalimu at Arnautoglo Hall going to cast his vote. That old man in the photograph with Mwalimu Nyerere escorting him to cast his vote is Mzee Mshume Kiyate.
The ruling party Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) has used this photograph in its mobilization effort urging people to vote. Unfortunately for almost five decades the photograph has been published without caption and Mshume Kiyate remains unrecognized to this day. Not many people know who Mshume Kiyate was or of his contribution to the struggle.
In 1995 when Mayor Kitwana Kondo honoured Mzee Mshume Kiyate by changing the name of the street Tandamti which he lived to Kiyate Mshume the press protested asking who Mshume Kiyate was.
Likewise the new street names in honour of Tatu Binti Mzee, Max Mbwana, Omari Londo were equally disputed. Strangely Mwalimu Nyerere did not utter a word.
It is interesting that with these changes of street names Mwalimu Nyerere was also honoured. Pugu Road was changed to Nyerere Road. The reason was that this was the road which Mwalimu Nyerere used to travel to Dar es Salaam during the struggle either riding a bicycle or walking on foot. When called by the press to comment on this change Mwalimu was quoted to have said that he should not be associated with those new developments.
His father, Affendi Plantan came into Tanganyika from Imhambane in Mozambique with Von Wissman, Commander of German Forces in East Africa to quell the Abushiri uprisings which began in Pangani.
The mosque is opposite College of Business Education. Kisutu sprawled from where now is the Libya Post Office up to Mzizima Secondary School to the west and to the east Kisutu went up to where now is the Tanzania Library to the north and to the south up to Morogoro Road.

 

[Son of Alaska]

DENY-ALL, me is gutted,speechless,flabbergasted,to sum it up me is lost for words.With this piece of history you have made my day.long live JF

 

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Nimeipata hii kutoka The East African nikaamua kuiweka humu kama sehemu ya historia watu wasome na wenye kuichambua waichambue na kusahihisha vile vile manake kuna watu wamekula chumvi nyingi hapa.

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Mwalimu in 1950s Dar


By MOHAMED SAID


Posted Sunday, October 12 2008 at 11:46

It is a pity that the late Mwalimu Julius Nyerere did not reveal much about his early life in Dar es Salaam of the 1950s, where he came to as a budding 30-year-old politician fresh from Edinburgh University.
One can only speculate why Nyerere was secretive about those days, the period when the Tanganyika African Association (TAA) was transformed into the Tanganyika African National Union (Tanu).
The closest Nyerere came to speaking about that period was in 1985 at the Diamond Jubilee Hall where, in an emotional farewell speech before he stepped down from the presidency, he paid tribute to “the Wazee wa Dar es Salaam” who supported him from the day Tanu was founded in 1954.
Mwalimu mentioned two people forgotten in the history of Tanganyika — Abdulwahid Sykes and Dossa Aziz. Abdulwahid was TAA president in 1953 and was among the four financiers of the movement along with his young brother Ally, Dossa and John Rupia.
Abdulwahid died young in 1968 but Dossa lived on to a ripe old age — though, sadly he died a poor and lonely man at Mlandizi in 1997.
However, they did not benefit from the fruits of Independence, for which they had worked so hard, nor were their names associated with Tanu, Nyerere or the independence movement.
One could write volumes about the contributions and sacrifices made by the two Sykes brothers and Dossa; and the elders like Mwinjuma Mwinyikambi, Kiyate Mshume, Jumbe Tambaza, Sheikh Hassan bin Amir and Sheikh Suleiman Takadir to mention only a few.
In those days, these names made up who’s who of the municipality. They were the rich and the famous of the town.
Dar es Salaam was then divided into four areas: Kariakoo, Gerezani, Kisutu and Mission Quarter. Kisutu was the oldest and had the oldest mosque in Dar es Salaam, the Mwinyikheri Akida Mosque, which is more than 100 years.
Across Morogoro Road was Kariakoo, which still exists, and the first street stretching from the north to the south parallel to Mnazi Mmoja was a narrow road — New Street — where the headquarters of the African Association stood, a building of stone and lime built in the 1930s through self-help during the leadership of Mzee Bin Sudi and Kleist Sykes, president and secretary respectively.
It was in this building that Tanu was born in 1954. The building was situated at the point where Kariakoo Street and New Street intersect. The house still stands.
To the west of Kariakoo was the Mission Quarter, an exclusive African mission area set aside by the British to separate the Christian minority from the Muslim majority in the town.
Even street names in Mission Quarter had names of settlements in Tanganyika where missionaries had managed to penetrate and establish themselves. Street names such as Masasi, Likoma, Ndanda, Muhonda, Muheza and Magila have survived to this day.
This was the only area in Dar es Salaam where missionaries managed to build a chapel. African Christians were confined to this area. And if a Christian ventured into Kariakoo, a majority Muslim area, to ask for a room, he would be advised to try his luck at Mission Quarter.
Mwalimu Nyerere thus arrived in a town that was structured along lines of prejudices.
Two prominent Africans and members of the African Association who lived in Mission Quarter during the emergence of nationalist politics were Thomas Plantan, elected president of the African Association once, and John Rupia a rich African businessman.
Rupia’s house, situated at Likoma Street and Magila, is where the African Association was founded in 1929. The house still stands today though not in its original structure.
An interesting fact about Mission Quarter is that it had the only printing press owned by an African — Mashado Plantan — which the pro-African Association newspaper Zuhra was published. This paper came to be Tanu and Nyerere’s first mouthpiece.
On the west of Kariakoo was Gerezani, home of Omari Londo, Ally Sykes, Zuberi Mtemvu, Mashado Plantan, Muhsin Mende and Dossa Aziz.
These were the first patriots from Gerezani to come into contact with Nyerere. Zuberi Mtemvu, Mashado Plantan and Muhsin Mende were later to resign from Tanu to form an opposition party, the Tanganyika African Congress, and the three became bitter opponents of Tanu and Nyerere.
Among prominent personalities from Kariakoo the young Nyerere interacted with were Mzee Mshume Kiyate, Sheikh Hassan bin Ameir, Sheikh Suleiman Takadir, Idd Faizi, Idd Tosiri, Abdulwahid Sykes and Dossa Aziz.
Abdulwahid Sykes was 28, two years younger than Julius Nyerere, when one afternoon Nyerere came to Abdulwahid’s house at Stanley Street (now Max Mbwana Street) accompanied by Bantu Kasella Bantu.
It is said Mwalimu Nyerere had a letter of introduction from Hamza Mwapachu (who was still in Britain studying) to Abdulwahid Sykes.
At that time, Sykes was the president of the Tanganyika African Association. The fact that Abdulwahid Sykes preceded Nyerere in the presidency of the TAA is a point often not mentioned even by Chama cha Mapinduzi.
This denies the history of nationalist politics in Tanganyika, “friendly silent power struggle” within the association between the incumbent and well established townsman Abdulwahid Sykes, son of a prosperous businessman and founder member of African Association, Kleist Sykes and the unassuming challenge from an unknown school teacher from Butiama, Julius Nyerere.
It denies the young generation inside information of what TAA did to outsmart the British and send Mwalimu Nyerere to the United Nations to address the Trusteeship Council. Most importantly, it denies them knowledge of the burning issues that were discussed at the “Sunday baraza.”
This weekly meeting was generally held either at Dossa’s house on Congo Street or at Abdulwahid’s house on Stanley Street (now Max Mbwana), where Nyerere used to come every Sunday to meet the TAA leadership and discuss the politics of the day.
Various schemes against the British were hatched from these two houses. The meetings at TAA headquarters in New Street, now Lumumba, was merely to rubber stamp the decisions arrived at the Sunday barazas.
Any student of Tanganyika’s nationalist politics wishing to trace Mwalimu Nyerere’s formative years needs to walk down this path. It is saddening that it has been neglected by researchers.
In 1963, Mwalimu Nyerere talked to Lady Judith Listowel, who had come to Tanganyika to research a book she was writing (The Making of Tanganyika). Lady Judith was the wife of William Mare, the last governor of Gold Coast (Ghana).
She was put in contact with Ally Sykes by Peter Colmore in Nairobi. Lady Judith came to Dar es Salaam and interviewed Abdulwahid and Ally Sykes and Julius Nyerere.
In that book, Mwalimu paid a glowing tribute to the nationalists who had preceded him in the political arena. A copy of the book, which is out of print, can be found at the University of Dar es Salaam Library or from Ally Sykes.
There are reports that Nyerere was under pressure to write his memoir but he declined. It is reported that Mwalimu even refused to meet an Oxford University Press representative who wanted to discuss the writing of his memoir.
It was only when Mwalimu Nyerere was severely criticised in two books — Conflict and Harmony in Zanzibar by Ali Muhsin Barwan and The Life and Times of Abdulwahid Sykes 1924 -1968 by this writer — that he succumbed to pressure and told his confidants to form a committee to which he would talk about his life, from which interaction they would be able to write his biography. But although the committee was formed, it never got off the ground as Mwalimu was in failing health and soon died on October 14, 1999.
But equally important in tracing Mwalimu’s steps from Butiama particularly after the founding of TANU in 1954 is the house of veteran politician and former secretary of the TAA Mzee Clement Mtamila who was overthrown from TAA leadership along with the president Thomas Plantan in a coup de grace led by Abdulwahid Sykes and Hamza Mwapachu in 1949.
The house of Mtamila was, situated at the junction of Kipata, (now Kleist Sykes Street) and Sikukuu Street now Zaramo Street.
In those days the president of the party was not necessarily the chairman of the executive committee.
In 1954 Clement Mtamila was the chairman of the executive committee of TANU.
It was in this house Nyerere then president of TANU presented the letter from Father Walsh in which he was given the ultimatum of either to continue to teach at the Catholic school in Pugu or resign to pursue politics.
This important meeting in which Mwalimu Nyerere decided to resign from teaching and work for TANU was chaired by Clement Mtamila in this house. Other members of the TANU Executive Committee present at that meeting were: John Rupia, Oscar Kambona, Bibi Tatu Binti Mzee and Bibi Titi Mohamed.
The sitting room in Mzee Mtamila’s up to late 1960s had many black and white photographs depicting Tanganyika’s history. The photographs depicted Nyerere’s early days in TANU showing him addressing the people from a make shift platform at Mnazi Mmoja Grounds overlooking where now stands the Adult Education Centre.
The open space opposite Mnazi Mmoja Grounds was John Rupia’s plot which he later donated to TANU to build the centre. Mzee Mtamila’s house is no more. It has given way to a high rise building now common in Gerezani, Mwalimu’s history buried with it in the rubble of stones, lime, dust and rusted corrugated iron sheets.
Another place which Mwalimu Nyerere frequented during those early days was the Kariakoo Market. Kariakoo Market building housing the market resembled a huge shack made of steel, concrete and corrugated iron sheets.
The market was busy around the clock with all kind of business being carried inside the market and within its environs. One could tell the tribe of the traders from the kind of trade he or she was engaged in.
The Mashomvi were selling fish, the Zaramo were into coconut business, the Nyamwezi particularly women confined themselves to selling dried tobacco leaves and snuff, and their men were selling yams grown in Kigamboni.
The Luguru were into oranges and vegetables. Arabs owned butchers and sold flour, cereals and spices.
This retail business Arabs were in competition with Indians. Kariakoo Market was a fertile place for TANU to recruit members and Abdulwahid did not lose that opportunity. Among the traders to support TANU from Kariakoo Market was Mzee Mshume Kiyate.
At that time in 1952 when Abdulwahid Sykes met Mwalimu Julius Nyerere he was working as Market Master of Karikoo Market. His office was at the junction of Tandamti Street (now Mshume Kiyate) and Swahili Street.
The afternoon after resigning from teaching Mwalimu Nyerere took a bus from Pugu and got off at Kariakoo which was the main stand and went straight to Abdulwahid’s office to give him the news.
Abdulwahid accommodated Mwalimu Nyerere at his house at Stanley Street until when Mwalimu left for to Butiama to get married to Mama Maria.
This house exists today but has undergone massive renovations altering its original look. Shariff Attas who was working as market auctioneer recalls that he used to escort Mwalimu Nyerere from Abdulwahid’s office to Sykes’ house for lunch wait for him and come back together.
Mwalimu would sit in Abdulwahid’s office reading The Tanganyika Standard. After closing of business at 4.30 Abdulwahid and Nyerere would come back home together. Many people in Dar es Salaam first saw and therefore came to know Mwalimu Nyerere during that time.
During this period Abdulwahid nearly lost his job as Market Master when Nyerere and TANU’s message began to be understood by the people. Abdulwahid was accused of selling TANU cards in Her Majesty’s Office.
Shariff Attas recalls the thrilling shouting match between Abdulwahid Sykes and the white colonial officer inside Sykes’s office when Abdulwahid in his impeccable English and without fear took out his TANU card and challenged the mzungu to take him to court if he feels he has contravened any law and TANU was not a legally registered party.
The veranda which used to be a meeting place where TANU leadership used to hold its meeting and where many people came to know Mwalimu Julius Nyerere is now a bazaar, the people who come to the place to buy and sell completely unaware of its rich history.
But the liveliest meeting place – Mwalimu Nyerere frequented outside the ‘Sunday Baraza’ at Congo and Stanley Street at Dossa’s house and Sykes’ place was at Sheikh Suleiman Takadir’s auction mart.
Sheikh Takadir was the Chairman of the TANU Elders Council the powerful body which had people like Mshume Kiyate, Mwinjuma Mwinyikambi, Jumbe Tambaza and others as members.
Sheikh Takadir was an auctioneer and was conducting his business from a house situated at Nyamwezi Street belonging to Mwinjuma Digosi, a jumbe appointed by the government.
The auction used to be the meeting place of TANU members. TANU members used to meet at Sheikh Takadir’s premises to drink coffee discuss politics and while away the time.
When Digosi, the landlord realised that Nyerere was visiting Sheikh Takadir at his place of business, he asked Takadir to seek accommodation elsewhere.
He told Sheikh Takadir that he could no longer have him as a tenant because he as a jumbe appointed by the government cannot allow his house to be a meeting place of ‘troublemakers’ like Nyerere and other riff - raffs.
Sheikh Takadir had no choice but to shift his business to Msimbazi Street. Sheikh Suleiman Takadir was to oppose Nyerere’s decision to participate in the controversial tripartite election of 1958 and the two became bitter enemies never to reconcile resulting into expulsion of Sheikh Takadir from TANU.
But one the most touching story of sacrifice, love and commitment to Mwalimu Nyerere, TANU and the struggle is that of Mzee Mshume Kiyate. Mwalimu Nyerere was to call Mshume’s commitment to the struggle – the TANU spirit.
This story was retold to the author by Ahmed Rashad Ali who said he was at Msasani, Mwalimu’s residence on that day with Dossa Aziz and Lucy Lameck when Nyerere told them the level of commitment which members of TANU had for the struggle.
There is a story of Said Chamwenyewe one of the earliest members to have joined TANU who mobilized the first members for TANU from Rufiji his home town when it was difficult to have a full register of members to fulfill a condition which would have made TANU qualify as a party and hence be registered.
Chamwenyewe used to ride a bicycle from Dar es Salaam to Rufiji to mobilize membership for TANU travelling through a forest infested with lions and other wild animals. But Mwalimu Nyerere had no fitting story to tell than that of Mzee Mshume Kiyate.
Mzee Mshume Kiyate was a fishmonger at Kariakoo Market. One day Mwalimu Nyerere was on his way to Kariakoo Market walking from Magomeni Majumba Sita where he was residing.
Upon reaching Mwembe Togwa (now known as Fire) at the junction of (Ronald Cameroon Road (now United Nations Road) and Morogoro Road Mwalimu Nyerere met Mshume Kiyate.
Mwalimu Nyerere told Mshume Kiyate that he was going to Kariakoo Market to buy provisions but he did have a single sent in his pocket. Mshume Kiyate dipped his hand into his pocket and gave Mwalimu Nyerere two hundred shillings.
At that time with two hundred shillings one could purchase a six bedroom house at Kariakoo. Mshume Kiyate from that day volunteered to provide food for Mwalimu’ family and he did this until 1961 when Tanganyika achieved its independence and Mwalimu Nyerere became Prime Minister.
There is a very famous photograph of Mwalimu Nyerere with an old man in coat, kanzu and Muslim cap taken in 1958 during the tripartite elections.
The photograph shows Mwalimu at Arnautoglo Hall going to cast his vote. That old man in the photograph with Mwalimu Nyerere escorting him to cast his vote is Mzee Mshume Kiyate.
The ruling party Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) has used this photograph in its mobilization effort urging people to vote. Unfortunately for almost five decades the photograph has been published without caption and Mshume Kiyate remains unrecognized to this day. Not many people know who Mshume Kiyate was or of his contribution to the struggle.
In 1995 when Mayor Kitwana Kondo honoured Mzee Mshume Kiyate by changing the name of the street Tandamti which he lived to Kiyate Mshume the press protested asking who Mshume Kiyate was.
Likewise the new street names in honour of Tatu Binti Mzee, Max Mbwana, Omari Londo were equally disputed. Strangely Mwalimu Nyerere did not utter a word.
It is interesting that with these changes of street names Mwalimu Nyerere was also honoured. Pugu Road was changed to Nyerere Road. The reason was that this was the road which Mwalimu Nyerere used to travel to Dar es Salaam during the struggle either riding a bicycle or walking on foot. When called by the press to comment on this change Mwalimu was quoted to have said that he should not be associated with those new developments.
His father, Affendi Plantan came into Tanganyika from Imhambane in Mozambique with Von Wissman, Commander of German Forces in East Africa to quell the Abushiri uprisings which began in Pangani.
The mosque is opposite College of Business Education. Kisutu sprawled from where now is the Libya Post Office up to Mzizima Secondary School to the west and to the east Kisutu went up to where now is the Tanzania Library to the north and to the south up to Morogoro Road.

DenyAll, this is very GOOD and very INTERESTING! Unaweza kukumbuka ilikuwa ni The East African ya lini na kama walikuwa wanaserialise kitabu ama la. Na kama ni kitabu unafahamu jina lake?

 

[deny_all]

DenyAll, this is very GOOD and very INTERESTING! Unaweza kukumbuka ilikuwa ni The East African ya lini na kama walikuwa wanaserialise kitabu ama la. Na kama ni kitabu unafahamu jina lake?

Baba Desi,

Sina maelezo zaidi kuhusu maswali yako ila 'orginal article' inapatikana hapa - The East African(Tusi)- Mwalimu in 1950s Dar - Posted Sunday, October 12 2008 at 11:46
Na utaona kwenye hiyo article unaweza kuwasiliana na mwandishi Bw. Mohamed Said.

 

[Jasusi]

Baba Desi,

Sina maelezo zaidi kuhusu maswali yako ila 'orginal article' inapatikana hapa - The East African(Tusi)- Mwalimu in 1950s Dar - Posted Sunday, October 12 2008 at 11:46
Na utaona kwenye hiyo article unaweza kuwasiliana na mwandishi Bw. Mohamed Said.

Nadhani ni kitabu alichoandika Mohammed Said kina title ya jina lake Abdu Wahid Sykes. Ukimgoogle Mohammed Said utapata jina la kitabu.

 

[deny_all]

Mnajua ifikapo 2009 Congo DRC watakuwa na jimbo linaitwa Tanganyika, wakati napitia history ya Tanganyika nikaikuta hii habari chini,

source: Wapedia - Wiki: Tanganyika Province

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Tanganyika Province

For the former country now part of Tanzania, see Tanganyika; for the lake, see Lake Tanganyika.

Tanganyika Province is one of the new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo to be established by February 2009 by dividing Katanga Province into four parts, under the 2006 Constitution. It will succeed Katanga's Tanganyika District.

Its eastern border is formed by Lake Tanganyika.
Province de Tanganyika

Map of the Dem. Rep. of the Congo highlighting the Province of Tanganyika
Country Democratic Republic of the CongoDemocratic Republic of the Congo
Capital Kalemie
Largest city
National language Kiswahili



Density 2,482,009 [1]
(est. )

/km²
Districts
Cities
Demonym none
Official Website [ Province de Tanganyika]
Territorial Organisation - Cities
1. Former province

Tanganyika province was the scene of a rebellion by the Luba-Katanga people against the independent state of Katanga. In 1961, it was reconquered by the Katanga state, only to be taken back by the Kinshasa government later that year. From July 11, 1962 to December 28, 1966, this area was known as the province of Nord-Katanga, but the administration of the province was taken over in 1966 by the central government, and it was finally merged into the restored Katanga Province by the Mobutu government.
1. 1. Presidents (from 1965, governors)

* 20 Oct 1960 - Mar 1961 Prosper Mwamba-Ilunga (1st time)
* 11 Sep 1962 - 27 Sep 1963 Prosper Mwamba-Ilunga (2nd time)
* 27 Sep 1963 - 15 Mar 1964 Jason Sendwe (1st time) (b. 1917 - d. 1964)
* 15 Mar 1964 - 21 Apr 1964 Fortunat Kabange Numbi (b. 1934 - d. 1964)
* 21 Apr 1964 - 18 Jun 1964 Jason Sendwe (2nd time) (s.a.)
* 22 Jun 1964 - Jul 1964 Ildephonse Masengo (b. c.1935 - d. 1969)
o (head of a provisional government for the whole Katanga province, in fact the territories occupied by the forces of the People's Republic)
* 22 Jul 1965 - 5 Nov 1966 Henri Ndala Kambola
o (administrator since Aug 1964?)

2. Administrators of Tanganyika District

* 14 September 2005 - present Rigobert Tshinanga Musungayi


• • Provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
2006 Constitution
(due to take effect
in 2009)

Bas-Uele · Équateur · Haut-Lomami · Haut-Katanga · Haut-Uele · Ituri · Kasaï · Kasaï oriental · Kongo central · Kwango · Kwilu · Lomami · Lualaba · Lulua · Mai-Ndombe · Maniema · Mongala · Nord-Kivu · Nord-Ubangi · Sankuru · Sud-Kivu · Sud-Ubangi · Tanganyika · Tshopo · Tshuapa · Kinshasa

 

[Jasusi]

Hivi kuna wanaofahamu kuwa jiji la Dar liliwahi kuwa na mabasi ya double decker kama yale ya London? Mwenye picha tunaomba atutundikie hapa.

 

[Nurujamii]

Jamani nimekumbuka tunda lililoitwa Ndulele na mwiba ulioitwa mbigiri. hii mimea ipo tena kweli?

 

[mgirima]

Jamani nimekumbuka tunda lililoitwa Ndulele na mwiba ulioitwa mbigiri. hii mimea ipo tena kweli?

Bado ipo. Ndulele (au Tura) zipo lakini sio rahisi kuzipata sehemu nyingi za DSM. Kwa mikoani zipo lakini sio nyingi kama zamani. Ni dawa kamambe kwa magonjwa ya tumbo mpaka gonorrhea, pia kwa mifugo.

Mbigiri (ulimkumbuka afande Mbigiri wa pale Makutopora nini?), nazo nio kama zinapotea kutokana na mifugo kuongezeka bila mpangilio. Miti ya migunga ndio naona kuipata ni kazi kubwa - tatizo likiwa ni mkaa.

 

[Mbu]

...kuna habari nyingine waweza soma ukabakia umejishika kidevu unajisikitikia ama ukabakia unacheka 'tunavyosengenywa'...

...yaani mwandishi wa habari hii anaoan 'light house' ilojengwa pale magogoni ni kama 'changa' la macho fulani...

Lighthouses of Tanzania

A large lighthouse tower was under construction in Dar Es Salaam in 2007; we don't know if this is purely a tourist attraction or also an aid to navigation.

...umeona hiyo? haya, sasa endelea na historia ya minara/lighthouses kwenye pwani zetu...

In Swahili, the common language of the Tanzanian coast, the word for a lighthouse is mnarani. Lighthouses in Tanzania are operated by the Tanzania Ports Authority.

Mafia Island Lighthouses
Fanjove Island (2)
1924 (station established 1894). Inactive since sometime after 1987. 17 m (55 ft) square tower with lantern and gallery rising from the center of a 1-story keeper's house. Lighthouse painted white.

** Ras Mkumbi (Moresby Point, Mafia Island)
1894. Active; focal plane 31 m (102 ft); white flash every 5 s. 30 m (98 ft) square masonry tower with lantern and gallery, attached to a 1-story keeper's house. Lighthouse painted white with red horizontal bands on the upper half; the lantern dome is also painted red. Mafia Island is a 50 km (30 mi) long island off the southeast coast of Tanzania; it was under Arab control until it was purchased by Germany in 1890. Part of the island and the waters around the island are now incorporated in the Mafia Island Marine Park, and a number of resorts have been built on the island. The lighthouse is located on the northernmost tip of Mafia Island, accessible by 4WD.

Dar Es Salaam Lighthouses

Ras Kanzi
Date unknown (station established 1897). Active; focal plane 28 m (92 ft); white flash every 10 s. 12 m (40 ft) gray square tower. No photo available. The original lighthouse had a keeper's house; it is not known if this house survives. Located on a promontory about 35 km (22 mi) southeast of Dar Es Salaam, marking the southern entrance to the Zanzibar Channel.

Outer Makatumbe (Dar Es Salaam Bay)
1894. Active; focal plane 29 m (95 ft); three white flashes every 20 s; in addition an occulting white light is shown southwestward as the rear light of the Makatumbe range. 29 m (95 ft) square masonry tower with lantern and gallery. Lighthouse painted with red and white horizontal bands. A distant photo also shows the front range light with a red triangular daymark. Huelse has a historic postcard view, and Google has a satellite view. The lighthouse appears to be a sibling of the Ras Mkumbi Light. It was refurbished as part of a harbor improvement project between 1997 and 1999. Located on a small, uninhabited island at the outer (northeastern) edge of a reef off Dar Es Salaam harbor. Accessible only by boat.

Oyster Bay Range Front
Date unknown. Active; focal plane 20 m (66 ft); quick-flashing white light. 9 m (29 ft) round cylindrical tower centered on a circular 1-story equipment room, painted white with a red vertical stripe on the range line. A photo is available, and Google has a satellite view. Oyster Bay, on the north side of Dar Es Salaam, was an area of European settlement in colonial times and is now an area of beach resorts. Located on the waterfront just off Kaunda Drive. Site status unknown.

* Oyster Bay Range Rear
Date unknown. Active; focal plane 37 m (121 ft); quick-flashing white light. 26 m (85 ft) square stone tower with lantern, attached to the front of a red-roofed building. Tower painted white with a red vertical stripe on the range line; lantern painted red. No photo available, but Google has a satellite view. We need a photo of this highly accessible lighthouse! Located on Kenyatta Drive just north of Kaunda Drive, 400 m (1/4 mi) west southwest of the front light. .

Unguja (Zanzibar) Island Lighthouses

* Ras Makunduchi
Date unknown. Active; focal plane 44 m (144 ft); two white flashes every 15 s. 27 m (89 ft) tower, painted with red and white horizontal bands. No photo available. Located on the southeastern point of the island, near the village of Makunduchi.

Pungume Island
Date unknown (station established 1919). Active; focal plane 26 m (85 ft); white flash every 3 s. 22 m (72 ft) square tower, painted with black and white vertical stripes. No photo available. Pungume is a small island off the southwestern coast of Zanzibar. Accessible only by boat.

**** Chumbe
View attachment 2692
1904. Active; focal plane 37 m (121 ft); white flash every 11 s. 34 m (112 ft) square 5-stage stone tower with lantern and gallery, painted white. Original 4° Fresnel lens in use, lit by an AGA acetylene system installed in 1926... This is easily Tanzani'a best known lighthouse. Located on a small island 13 km (8 mi) southwest of Stonetown, Zanzibar's main harbor. Accessible by passenger ferry.

* Shangani (Beit-el-Ajaib, "House of Wonders") Clock Tower (2)
1924 (station established 1890s). Active; focal plane 44 m (144 ft); continuous white light. Light mounted on a mast atop a square clock tower on the front of a large palace. Entire building painted white.

Mangapwani (2)
1926 (station established 1886). Active; focal plane 35 m (115 ft); white flash every 15 s. 23 m (75 ft) square tower, painted white with a red base. No photo available. Located on a promontory on the northwest coast of the island about 25 km (15 mi) north of Stone Town.

Tumbatu (Mwana Wa Mwana) Island
1889. Active; focal plane 26 m (85 ft); white flash every 10 s. 23 m (75 ft) six-stage square stone tower with lantern and gallery. The lighthouse appears to be unpainted white stone. This not-so-well known tower is very similar to the famous Chumbe Light, but it is 15 years older. Tumbatu is a long, narrow island off the northwest coast of Zanzibar; it has several resorts, and transportation can be arranged from Stone Town or Nikokotoni. Located on the northern tip of the island.

Ras Nungwi (Hog Point) (2)
View attachment 2694
1926 (station established 1881). Active; focal plane 18 m (60 ft); white flash every 5 s. 14 m (46 ft) 3-stage square tower with lantern and gallery, rising through the center of a 1-story keeper's house. Building painted white, lantern red. A photo is at the top of this page, a closeup photo is available, and also a third photo. Zanzibar's oldest light station may be endangered: beach erosion has created a steep scarp in front of the building. Located at the northern tip of Zanzibar.

Pemba Island Lighthouses

Matumbe Makupa
Date unknown. Active; focal plane 33 m (108 ft); three white flashes every 20 s. 31 m (101 ft) tower, painted with red and white horizontal bands. No photo available. Apparently located on a small island off the southwestern tip of Pemba.
.
**** Ras Kigomasha
View attachment 2693
1904. Active; focal plane 38 m (125 ft); flash every 55 s (!), alternately red and white. 27 m (89 ft) hexagonal cast iron skeletal tower with lantern, gallery, and central cylinder. Entire lighthouse painted white. A photo is at right, and an October 2007 photo is available. The lighthouse was prefabricated in England. Located on the northern tip of Pemba.

Tanga Lighthouses

Ulenge Island Range Front (2)
Date unknown (station established 1929). Active; focal plane 12 m (39 ft); quick-flashing white light. 15 m (49 ft) concrete tower. No photo available. Located 320 m (0.2 mi) southeast of the rear light.

Ulenge Island Range Rear (Tanga Bay)
1894. Active; focal plane 26 m (85 ft); white light, 4.5 s on, 7.5 s off. 26 m (85 ft) square stone tower with lantern and gallery, painted white with a black horizontal band. No current photo available, but Huelse has a historic postcard view. This was the only Tanga light until the range was established in 1929. Located on Ulenge Island, a small island in the entrance

...bado najiuliza iwapo mnara wa magogoni ulojengwa 2007 kama una faida yeyote au la...

 

[Mbu]

View attachment 2698

...Tanga, kunani pale, wawekezaji wa Kijerumani hawakuwa nyuma kuwekeza miundombinu Circa 1900, na kwa tulobahatika kutembelea hata kule juu Lushoto, mnhh, lami mpaka futi alfu kadhaa juu ya usawa wa bahari...

...rail za trams Tanga mjini...

View attachment 2699


...hatma yao ilikuwa pale Waingereza walipowasambaratisha katika world war1, kwa ushahidi wa ramani hii ya uvamizi...

View attachment 2700

 

[Challenger]

Dah! Field Marshall Mwanangu nimekuaminia kuwa wewe ni kati ya wale vijana wa zamani ambao kumbukumbu ni hazina: basi kwa kusema hivyo nakuingiza kwenye list ya watu wangu ambao hatusahau historia yetu:

Kwanza huyu Twahir Ally ambaye sio siri upigaji wake wa saxphine wa kulalamika/kusikitika ndio ilikuwa alama kubwa kwake na ndio ilikuwa kitambulisho cha Orchestra Safari Sound toka enzi zake za "Masantula" chini ya King Kiki and hata baada ya bendi Chini ya Kasheba (R.I.P) wakati wakiinadi OSS wa kimtindo wa "Duku Duku" Twahir Ally alikuwa nashirikiana vyema na Roy Mkuna, Kimeza Abdallah, Saleh Maluu na Majengo Suleiman pale OSS.

Twahir Ally kwa mara ya mwisho nilimsikia akifanya kazi na Bendi ya wazee Sugu "King Kiki", "Issah Nundu", "Kasongo Mpinda", "Mtombo Lufumbula". Sijui yupo wapi kwa sasa

1.

Sawa sawa mkuu hapo nimekupata.

2.

1. Unajua huyu Dede sikujua kuwa jina lake lina Kaijage mwishoni, kwa sababu siku zote alikuwa akiishia na Kamchape tu haendi mbele zaidi, unajua Msondo ngoma enzi zile ilikuwa inakubalika sana kama bendi ya watoto wa nyumbani, ndio maana nyimbo zao nyingi tehan zilikuwa zinatoka kwenye ngoma kumtoa mwali kule uswahilini au Zaramoni,

- kwa mfano ile yao ya zamani "....nisingekukimbia mpenzi wangu eeh, tabia za nyumbani kwenu zimenishinda...." hiki kilikuwa kibao maarufu sana huko Goba na uswahilini kwa hiyo kukubalika Msondo Ngoma, ilikuwa ni lazima uonekane mtoto wa nyumbani, nafikri ndio maana Dede alikuwa akiishia na Kamchape, very smart!

- hivi majuzi nimepata single moja ya Sikinde, "....Isaya mrithi wangu..." sikumsikia Bitchuka, ndio maana nikauliza kama yupo bado!


3.

1. Ni kweli hii tabia ya Msondo na majina aliianzisha Mkulu Moshi (RIP), akidhani kuwa anakaribia kuwa kama kina Jibe Mpiyana wa Wenge BCBG, lakini uko right wamezidisha sana kurusha majina.

2. Twahir, ninamkumbuka kwenye ule wimbo wa Kiki, akiwa na OSS yaani "...Mimi msafiri bado niko njiani..." kwa kweli baada tu ya Kiki kutoka OSS nilikosa mapenzi kabisa nao kwa sababu nilimuona Kasheba (RIP) kama mtu aliyependa mno misifa, nikaacha kabisa kuwafuatilia kabisa, ila ninajua at one time alikuwa na bendi moja kwenye hotel za kitalii kule baharini.

Shukrani mkuu, na kwa wakulu wote wengine bado mtandao wangu haujatengemaa, lakini utakapokamilika tu tutaweka picha zaidi hapa, bado tutaendeelea hapa bila noma na picha.

Ahsante wakuu.

 

[Challenger]

Hapana Machaku alikuwa mmoja tu na hajawahi kutokea mwingine, Huyu umsemaye Machaku habibu sio hiyo nafikiri unamchnganya na Mpiga drum Habib Abas Mgalusi "jeff"

Mkuu Gottee,

Safi sana, Med Mpakanjia ni kijana wa mjini ambaye amekuwa akitajwa sana kwenye nyimbo za bendi mbali mbali, kuotknaa na ukaribu wake na wanamuziki, nafikiri yeye sasa na Papa Musofe, ndio vinara wa kutajwa sana na hizi bendi zetu.

Hivi naomba kuuliza, Machaku kuliwa na wawili au mmoja kwa sababu najua kuan mmoja alikuwa mwanamuziki pia wa Sikinde, kama sikosei alikwua akiitwa Habibu Machaku, au?

 

[William J. Malecela]

Kwanza huyu Twahir Ally ambaye sio siri upigaji wake wa saxphine wa kulalamika/kusikitika ndio ilikuwa alama kubwa kwake na ndio ilikuwa kitambulisho cha Orchestra Safari Sound toka enzi zake za "Masantula" chini ya King Kiki and hata baada ya bendi Chini ya Kasheba (R.I.P) wakati wakiinadi OSS wa kimtindo wa "Duku Duku" Twahir Ally alikuwa nashirikiana vyema na Roy Mkuna, Kimeza Abdallah, Saleh Maluu na Majengo Suleiman pale OSS.

Twahir Ally kwa mara ya mwisho nilimsikia akifanya kazi na Bendi ya wazee Sugu "King Kiki", "Issah Nundu", "Kasongo Mpinda", "Mtombo Lufumbula". Sijui yupo wapi kwa sasa

Mkuu ahsante sana kwa taarifa hii, unajua huyu Twahir nikupe nini mtoto, duh! alikuwa mkali sana wa Saxo, yaani mimi nilikuwa ninamfananisha sana na wapiga Saxo wa huko Zaire, kama kina Matalanza wa Orch. Veve, Benazoo Mbuta wa Orch. Lipwa Lipwa, na Mzee mwenyewe Kiamwangana Mateta Verkyis wa Zela Mbongo, au Mpenda pesa kwa kilingala, si unajua bandeko na ngai kinapanda kidogo,

Sasa between Twahir, Mafumu Bilali Bombenga, na Abdallah Kimeza nani alikuwa zaidi kwa maoni yako?

Lakini saafi sana bro, I am down!

 

[Masaki]

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies within us while we live. – Norman Cousins

 

[Masatu]

Kuna mtu anaweza kutupatia picha za ajali iliosababisha kifo cha W/mkuu Sokoine?

 

[William J. Malecela]

BATTY JULIUS Says: July, 1, 2008 at 4:30 am

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1. WAIMBAJI NI CHIMANGA ASSOSA,MUKUMBULE PARASH,MUTOMBO AUDAX,ISSA NUNDU NA KABEYA BADU.

2. SOLO GUITAREKULA KAHANGA”VUMBI”,SECOND SOLO:MBWANA S.KOCKS(marehemu)RYTHM:WILLIAM MASELENGE(marehemu) BASS:BANZA MCHAFU(marehemu).

3. TROMPETT:KAUMBA KALEMBA NA NGOYI MUBENGA(wote marehemu) SAXOPHON:MUKUNA ROY,BERRY KANKONDE(marehemu)

4. CONGAS:SEIF

5. SAID,DRUMMS:MATEI JOSEPH

KINONDONI LANG’ATA ILI KUWA KIVUMBI NA JASHO SENDEMAAAA,TWENDE MBELE RUDI NYUMA,KUSHOTO KULIA

Duh! Marquis Kamanyola baada ya Adios Mbuya Makonga (RIP), hapo aliyebaki kutoka the originals ni Parash tu!