Ernesto "Che" Guevara was in Dar es Salaam for about five months from October 1965 - February 1966, besides the time he spent in the western part of the country during his Congo mission. And it was when he was in Dar es Salaam that he wrote his famous book, the Congo Diaries, while staying at the Cuban embassy during those critical months...
Although the Tanzanian government knew about the passage of the Cuban internationalists through its territory and offered them logistic help and protection until they left for the battle field, news about Che's presence stayed within the closed ranks of the Cuban command. Everything was kept in great secrecy.
Speculation on Guevara's whereabouts continued throughout 1966 and into 1967. Representatives of the Mozambican independence movement FRELIMO reported meeting with Guevara in late 1966 or early 1967 in Dar es Salaam, at which point they rejected his offer of aid in their revolutionary project.
One of the most common eating spots he used to frequent is the New Zahir's Restaurant in Mosque Street at Kisutu. Where Che could be seen enjoying a cup of tea and chappatis. A keen admirer of Swahili language, Che chose the name Tatu (swahili word for three) as his code name
Some historians have even gone Further to suggest that Che Guevara played a major role in the Zanzibar revolution, Saying it was not documented due to its high level of secrecy..
Revolutionaries, however, can. Whether they fail or succeed, genuine revolutionaries often win the hearts of the world's romantic and idealistic, especially the young, who admire in them their passionate rejection of an unjust economic and social order which they insist causes so much hopelessness and needless death.
Ernesto"Che" Guevara, "probably the most genuine revolutionary leader," as even Henry Kissinger admitted in his memoirs, inspired such admiration--admiration that can be seen still in the banners and T-shirts worn by a younger generation seeking to protest "globalization."
Yakhe Gombesugu una taabu kwelikweli weye,
watukumbusha "chachamao" na umri huu?
Je zile "ice cream coco" za senti 10? (ukiwa na senti 5 ile ya tundu au baadae ya samaki unakatiwa nusu!)
Kisha pale Al Kefak nje palichomwa mishkaki ya finyango 3 ambayo ladha yake haipatikani tena sehemu yoyote!
Mkabala na Al Kefak palikuwa na shule yetu ya msingi ikiitwa Mohammadiya Pr Sch kisha ikataifishwa 1967 ikaitwa Jamhuri Pr/ Sch sikuhizi naskia imekuwa Jamhuri Sec/ Sch. Naskia Cameo Cinema haipo tena. Tulikuwa tukiangalia matangazo ya sinema pale Cameo (karibu na Zahir) wenzetu wakatuambia kuna Wacuba wanajichana hapo Zahir, tukaenda tukajifanya tumekwenda kunywa maji (si unajua maji yalikuwa ni bure na haikatazwi) ndipo tukamwona tunaedhani alikuwa Che Guevara na wenzake kama watatu hivi na waswahili wawili, walikuja na Landrover 109 (macho ndani) ya kijivu, walikaa meza ya kushoto kabisa ukiingia mlangoni. Hatukumjua kwa wakati ule bali
tuliposikia habari zake baadae tukahisi atakuwa ni yeye, ndio maana nikasema inawezekana kabisa alikuwa akienda Zahir Restaurant kula biriyani na ile mikate ya ufuta!
Lakini sasa wewe Gombesugu mbona sikuhizi lile Gombesugu lenyewe original linalopigwa pamoja na exhaust pipe ya Leyland Albion skuizi halipigwi tena? Twaona michiriku na minanda tu?
Chukueni darsa hili kutoka kwa Ritz,
Hoja ni kua factual reference ya post yako ina mashakamashaka, hii ndio hoja yangu.Sikutoa sababu za familia hiyo kumkatalia Obama kumuona Madiba kama alivyotaka, bali nimeunganisha mtiririko wa matukio yanayo indicate kutomuafiki Obama, hata Rais Jacob Zuma hakwenda kumpokea Obama Airport bali alikwenda Waziri wake wa mambo ya nje (ingawa pia inawezekana ikawa ndio protokali yao ya kawaida!)
Unauliza au unabisha? Ndiyo maana nakuambia wewe mgeni mji huu.
Alifika Zanzibar,lakini kwa siri mno...watu walompokea/ma-Comrades wenzie na kumfikisha huko wako hai mpaka kesho hapo hapo D'Salaam...na picha za ukumbusho zipo!
Kama unabisha hili kamuulize Salim Ahmed atakufahamisha uzuri mno!
Cc;Ritz
Wewe ngoma ya kizaramo, ili kukata mzizi wa fitina inaelekea umeziona hizo picha kwa Salim kwanini usiziombe uzibandike humu kama usemavyo kuwa zipo!!! Wakweree na wazaramo hawana tofauti hivyo sikuonei ajabu kwa uongo wako!!!
Mimi nalifikri najadiliana na mtu msomi na mstaarabu...kumbe muhuni fulani tu; mwenye prejudice, stereotypes,kebehi,kashfa, na chuki zisizo mipaka kwa makabila fulani hapo nchini!?
Hayo Makabila uliyotaja wala si yangu na wala sina uhusiano nayo asilan.
Kwaheri,nakusihi watafute wenzio wa aina yako mpasuane vichwa humu Jf!....yaani umo humu Jf tangia 2008,khalaf ndo unaandika utumbo huo,kweli Watanzania mna kazi!?
Wasalimie!!
Mbona suala la safari ya Guevara kwenda Zanzibar limeelezwa vyema kwenye vitabu. Hii ni nukuu ya Don Peterson kwenye kitabu chake Zanzibar Revolution: An American Cold War Tale'' I sat behind karume and his notable guest, the famous cuban revolutionary, Che Guevara at the football stadium during a bull fight part of Zanzibar's and Pemba's portuguese heritage...''(uk 253)Wewe ngoma ya kizaramo, ili kukata mzizi wa fitina inaelekea umeziona hizo picha kwa Salim kwanini usiziombe uzibandike humu kama usemavyo kuwa zipo!!! Wakweree na wazaramo hawana tofauti hivyo sikuonei ajabu kwa uongo wako!!!
Watu wanapiga biashara mwanzo mwisho.Zahir Hotel bado ipo.
mmenitoa machozi ndugu zangu,nimefika revolution plaza havana na nimeona wht he did. he said, hasta la victoria siempre.
Sikuwahi kusikia kwamba alifika Tz ingawa alifika Kongo (Zaire) na kusaidia harakati za kivita.
Alifika Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Kigoma, Zanzibar.
Alifika Zanzibar,lakini kwa siri mno...watu walompokea/ma-Comrades wenzie na kumfikisha huko wako hai mpaka kesho hapo hapo D'Salaam...na picha za ukumbusho zipo!
Kama unabisha hili kamuulize Salim Ahmed atakufahamisha uzuri mno!
Cc;Ritz