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Re: Beating the Drum on One Side: Confusing the People on Both Sides
Gautama,By GAUTAMA
Kwani Basil Davidson ambae sio Prof wa History, nae amedandia treni kwa mbele?, Ritz ngoja nkufundishe maana umeshindwa kuelewa sasa unatapa tapa, hatuandiki Peper, tunaandika Paper, tena ulirudia kuandika mara mbili, kumaanisha kwamba ulikua hujui, sasa ole wako urudie tena, kwih kwih kwih.
Umemtaja Basil Davidson.
Nisikilize na mimi tafadhali:
"In 1985, President Nyerere, while conferring an honorary degree on Basil Davidson, challenged the University of Dar es Salaam to write a correct history of Tanzania. In 1988, while commemorating thirty years of the Tabora Declaration,Nyerere in reference to early TANU members and as a tribute to them Nyerere askedthe Party to take stock of those who joined TANU between 1954 and 1958. Nyereresaid: “That was the most trying period in the history of our Party and few people were courageous enough to join and work for the Party.” [1] In supporting Nyerere for his recent call and taking up the challenge to record a correct history which he had for the first advanced in 1974 and again in 1985 thepresent author published an article in African Events [2] in which Abdulwahid and other forgotten TANU pioneers received prominence. In that article the author did what no other scholar had done before. He mentioned the fact that Muslims were in theforefront during the struggle for independence. It was at that time taboo to associate Islam or Muslims with the independence movement. The author received sharp rebuke from a Party historian, Dr. Mayanja Kiwanuka, a leading member of the panel which wrote the Party book Historia ya Chama Cha TANU 1954-1977, the official history ofthe Party. The Party historian had this to say: "(the)... article...argues that although Muslims in Tanzania played a crucial role in thestruggle for independence, there is a deliberate effort to downplay their contribution. Consequently, the entire article contains half-baked fairy tales to sustain his argument, more so by mentioning names of several TANU stalwarts who happened to be Muslims...The greatness of TANU, indeed that of its founder-leader, Mwalimu Nyerere, is that, in so short a time since its inception, it managed to weave together into a formidable, relatively homogeneous nationalist movement, a people so ethnically, culturally and religiously diverse... Said’s major goal is to sow seeds of discord, and at any price, truth to him is a matter to be ignored." [3] This was the reaction from Kiwanuka, who supervised the research on the official history of the party, reducing a research article to what he called a ‘fairy tale.’ The author was also accused of lying. Kiwanuka, not deviating from the Party stand, emphasized ‘the greatness of the party and its founder-leader.’ Kiwanuka was at that time the Assistant Secretary in the Department of Political Propaganda and Mass Mobilisation of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi."
(From "The Life and Times of Abdulwahid Sykes (1924 - 1968...)"
[1] Daily News, 6 th October, 1988.
[2] See M. Said, ‘In Praise of Ancestors’ Africa Events, London, March/April 1988, pp. 37-41.
[3] See Africa Events, May, 1988, letter by Dr K. Mayanja Kiwanuka.
Wanabarza,
Naongeza hii ili upatikane mnyumbuliko mzuri:
"On hindsight Hamza Aziz was a hero himself though his contribution to the struggle for independence has to date not been requited. Indeed all books written by local and foreign historians on political history of Tanganyika has focused on Nyerere alone completely eclipsing other patriots who equally played important roles in the struggle for independence. [4] Ali Juma Ponda Hassan Suleiman[5] and Ali Migeyobegan to organise the people in 1940s immediately after World War II through the African Association (AA) founded in 1929 by Kleist Sykes[6] as founding secretary. Kleist Sykes died in 1949 and he left behind a vast amount of personal papers and diaries which were consulted for the first time by John Iliffe in 1960s while researching the history of African Association.[7]Unfortunately for certain reasons these documents have not been made available to any researcher ever since save for the period when the papers were consulted in the writing ofAbdulwahid Sykes’s biography in 1980s.[8] Sykes’ papers make very interesting reading to any student of Tanganyika’s political history. Information in the papers contradicts the known political history of colonial Tanganyika. Interesting is the fact that when Kivukoni Ideological College was researching into the history of TANU the panel of party researchers were notified about the existence of these papers. Thepanel refused outright to consult these documents satisfying themselves to focus on Nyerere alone. We will in the course of discussion see what the reaction of CCM was when a corrective history of TANU and Nyerere’s own history was attempted by independent researchers. This collection of Sykes' papers should have been preserved at the Tanzania National Archives (TNA). These papers should not be allowed to be in private hands."
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