Abeid Karume
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Abeid Amani Karume was a Tanzanian politician and statesman who served as the first president of Zanzibar and vice-president of Tanzania from 1964 until his assassination in 1972.
Karume in 1964
Karume on Tanzania 200 shillings
Afro-Shirazi Party
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The Afro-Shirazi Party was an African nationalist and socialist Zanzibari political party formed between the mostly Shirazi Shiraz Party and the mostly African Afro Party.
Abeid Karume
…affairs through exposure to African thinkers such as Hastings Banda of Malawi. Karume developed an apparatus of control through the expansion of the Afro-Shirazi Party (ASP) and its relations with the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) party. On 10 December 1963, the United Kingdom granted full independence to…
A kanga celebrating TANU and ASP (House of Wonders museum, Stone Town, Zanzibar)