Abeid Amani Karume
Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume (born April 4, 1905 in Mwera , Zanzibar , † April 7, 1972 in Zanzibar City ) was a Zanzibari politician and the first President of Zanzibar in 1964. From 1964 until his assassination in 1972 he was also First Vice-President of Tanzania .
Life
Karume claims to have been born in Mwera on Zanzibar, which political opponents have often questioned. He worked as a seaman from his youth before getting involved in politics. Karume founded the Afro-Shirazi Party (ASP) in 1957 to defend the interests of the black African majority against the Arab upper class and the Indian traders in Zanzibar. After the revolution and the fall of the Sultan in 1964, Karume became President of the People's Republic of Zanzibar and Pemba . In April 1964, under strong pressure from outside, he agreed to the unification of his country with Tanganyika to form the United Republic of Tanzania and became its first vice-president under Julius Nyerere . Karume was assassinated on April 7, 1972 . Aboud Jumbe Mwinyi succeeded him as President of Zanzibar.
His son Amani Abeid Karume was president of the autonomous islands of Zanzibar and Pemba from 2000 to 2010.
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Country Lexicon: Zanzibar, History ( Memento from April 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Rainer Achim Blasius, Wolfgang Hölscher, Daniel Kosthorst: Files on the Foreign Policy of the Federal Republic of Germany, 1964, Volume 1
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| SURNAME | Karume, Abeid Amani |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sheikh Abeid Karume |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Zanzibari politician, first President of Zanzibar in 1964 |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 4, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mwera , Zanzibar |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 7, 1972 |
| Place of death | Zanzibar City |