1. Abeid Amani Karume was a Tanzanian politician and statesman who served as the first President of Zanzibar and the first Vice President of Tanzania from 1964 to 1972.
10 Facts About Abeid Karume
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Abeid Karume obtained the title of president as a result of a revolution which led to the deposing of Jamshid bin Abdullah, the last reigning Sultan of Zanzibar, in.
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Three months later, Zanzibar united with Tanganyika and formed Tanzania, and Karume became the first Vice President of Tanzania with Julius Nyerere as president of the new unified country.
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Abeid Karume was the father of Zanzibar's sixth president, Amani Abeid Karume.
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Nevertheless, Abeid Karume had little formal education and worked as a seaman before entering politics.
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Abeid Karume left Zanzibar in the early years of his life, travelling among other places to London, where he gained an understanding of geopolitics and international affairs through exposure to African thinkers such as Hastings Banda of Malawi.
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Abeid Karume developed an apparatus of control through the expansion of the Afro-Shirazi Party and its relations with the Tanganyika African National Union party.
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Abeid Karume was not in Zanzibar on 12 January 1964, the night of the revolution, and was instead on the African mainland.
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Abeid Karume used his political skills to align the leaders of neighboring African countries against Okello and invited Tanganyikan police officers into Zanzibar to maintain order.
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Abeid Karume established a system of free education and health services for all Zanzibaris regardless their race, color or ethnicity.