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VIDEOS OF ABEID KARUME
Abeid
Amani Karume (4 August 1905 – 7
April 1972) was the first President of Zanzibar. He
obtained this title as a result of a revolution which led to the deposing of His Majesty Sir Jamshid bin Abdullah, the last
reigning Sultan of Zanzibar, in January
1964. Three months later, the United Republic of Tanzania was
founded, and Karume became the first Vice President of the United Republic
with Julius Nyerere of Tanganyika
as president of the new country. He was the father of Zanzibar's former
president, Amani Abeid Karume.
On 10
December 1963, the United Kingdom granted full independence to Zanzibar
after the Zanzibar National Party (ZNP) and Zanzibar and Pemba People's Party
won the elections. The Sultan was a constitutional monarch.
Initial elections gave government control to the ZNP.
Abeid Karume
led Zanzibar revolution on 12 January 1964, and became the first president of
Zanzibar, and make the country free to all Zanzibaris.
Karume
was assassinated in April 1972 in Zanzibar Town. Four gunmen shot him dead as
he played bao at the headquarters of the Afro-Shirazi Party. Reprisals followed against
people suspected to have been opposed to Karume's regime. Amani Abeid Karume, Abeid's son, was elected two
times as the president of Zanzibar, in 2000 and 2005 by a popular majority and
handed over power in late 2010 to his successor Ali
Mohamed Shein.
Videos of Abeid Karume
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