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Sheikh Abeid Amani Karume

Abeid Karume
عبيد كريم
Abeid Karume 1964.jpg
Abeid Karume in 1964
1st President of Zanzibar
In office
26 April 1964 – 7 April 1972
Preceded by Himself President of People's Republic of Zanzibar and Pemba
Succeeded by Aboud Jumbe
1st Vice President of Tanzania
In office
29 October 1964 – 7 April 1972
President Julius Nyerere
Preceded by Position Established
Succeeded by Aboud Jumbe
President of People's Republic of Zanzibar and Pemba
In office
12 January 1964 – 25 April 1964
Preceded by Jamshid bin Abdullah (Sultan of Zanzibar)
Succeeded by Position Abolished (Julius Nyerere As President of Tanzania)
Personal details
Born (1905-08-04)4 August 1905
Mwera, Zanzibar
Died 7 April 1972(1972-04-07) (aged 66)
Zanzibar City, Zanzibar
Nationality Tanzanian
Political party Afro-Shirazi Party
Children Amani
Ali

Abeid Amani Karume (4 August 1905 – 7 April 1972) was the first President of Zanzibar. He obtained this title as a result of a violent revolution which led to the deposing of the last Sultan of Zanzibar Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah 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.

Allegedly born at the village of Mwera in 1905, Karume had little formal education and worked as a seaman before entering politics. He left Zanzibar in the early years of his life, traveling among other places to London, where he gained an understanding of geopolitics and international affairs through exposure to African thinkers such as Kamuzu Banda of Malawi. Karume developed an apparatus of control through the expansion of the Afro-Shirazi Party and its relations with the Tanganyika African National Union party.

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. Karume was willing to work within the electoral framework of the new government, and actually informed a British police officer of the revolutionary plot set to take place in January.


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