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1958–59 Tanganyikan General Election
General elections were held in Tanganyika (territory), Tanganyika in September 1958 and February 1959. Elections were held in five constituencies on 8 and 12 September 1958, and in the other five on 9 and 15 February 1959.Dieter Nohlen, Michael Krennerich & Bernhard Thibaut (1999) ''Elections in Africa: A data handbook'', pp875-879 The Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) and affiliated independents won all 30 elected seats in the National Assembly of Tanzania, Legislative Council. Campaign Fifteen of the 30 elected seats were uncontested, all of which were won by the TANU.Dolf Sternberger, Bernhard Vogel (politician), Bernhard Vogel, Dieter Nohlen & Klaus Landfried (1978) ''Die Wahl der Parlamente: Band II: Afrika, Zweiter Halbband'', p2166 In each constituency, voters voted for an African, Asian and European candidate. A further 34 members were appointed. Results By constituency Aftermath In December 1959, the United Kingdom agreed to the establishment of internal sel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Bomani
Paul Lazaro Bomani (January 1, 1925 – April 1, 2005) was a Tanzanian politician and ambassador to the United States and Mexico. Biography Paul Bomani was born in 1925 in Ikizu, Mara Region. He served as the Minister of Finance, Agriculture, Economic Affairs and Planning, and Commerce and Industry. He also served as a member of Parliament. Paul Bomani was a very successful business man and was reported to be one of the richest African in Tanzania by 1970. Paul Bomani is among a handful of Tanganyikans/Tanzanians who made significant contributions to the country. He was active in the independence struggle and after Tanganyika/Tanzania won independence, he was one of the main people responsible for finance and development for the country in the 1960s to early 70s. Paul Bomani attended Nassa Primary School in Mwanza from 1936 to 39. He joined the Teacher Training College in Ikizu, Mara from 1939 to 1944. He worked as the Assistant Secretary of Cash Stores of the Williams ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1960 Tanganyikan General Election
General elections were held in Tanganyika on 30 August 1960, following the agreement of the United Kingdom to establish internal self-government for the territory. The Tanganyika African National Union won 70 of the 71 elected seats, whilst the other went to a TANU member who had stood against the official TANU candidate, and immediately joined TANU faction after being elected. African Elections Database Results References {{Tanganyikan elections, state=expanded Parliamentary elections in Tanzania |
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The UK includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and most of List of islands of the United Kingdom, the smaller islands within the British Isles, covering . Northern Ireland shares Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border, a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. It maintains sovereignty over the British Overseas Territories, which are located across various oceans and seas globally. The UK had an estimated population of over 68.2 million people in 2023. The capital and largest city of both England and the UK is London. The cities o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mahmud Rattanse
Mahmud is a transliteration of the male Arabic given name (), common in most parts of the Islamic world. It comes from the Arabic triconsonantal root Ḥ-M-D, meaning ''praise'', along with ''Muhammad''. Given name Mahmood *Mahmood Ali (1928–2008), Pakistani radio, television and stage artist *Mahmood Hussain (cricketer) (1932–1991), Pakistani Test cricketer *Mahmood Hussain (councillor), Lord Mayor of Birmingham, England 2002–2003 * Shah Mahmood Qureshi (born 1956), Pakistani politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2018 to 2022 *Mahmood Shaam (born 1940), Pakistani Urdu language journalist, poet writer and analyst *Mahmood Yakubu (born 1962), Nigerian academic and current chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission * Mahmood Monshipouri (born 1952), Iranian-born American scholar, educator, and author * Mahmooda Sultana, Aerospace engineer (NASA) * Begum Mahmooda Salim Khan (1913–2007), Pakistani social worker *Mahmood Hussein Mattan (1923–1952), Somali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fundikira III
Abdallah Said Fundikira III (2 February 1921 – 6 August 2007) was the Ntemi (chief) of Unyanyembe 1957–1962/2007, when he was deposed by the Tanzanian government. He died as a member of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi party. Early life Fundikira attended his primary education at Tanga Primary School. He undertook middle school education at the same school and later joined Tabora School for secondary education where he graduated in 1939. Fundikira joined Makerere University in Uganda from 1940 to 1946 and was conferred with a first degree in Agriculture. In 1957, he was ordained as chief of the Nyamwezi in the Nyanyembe chiefdom. In 1961 soon after independence, the first Chief Minister Julius Nyerere appointed Fundikira as minister for water, a portfolio he served for one year. He was appointed the first local justice minister when Tanganyika became a republic in 1962. He resigned from the Cabinet in 1963 to protest the imminent legislation introducing a one party state. In 1964, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barbro Johansson
Barbro Cecilia Johansson (September 25, 1912 – 7 December 1999) was a Swedish-Tanzanian missionary. She was born in St. John's Parish Malmö, the third largest city in Sweden on September 12, 1912. Johansson was the daughter of Anders Johansson and school teacher Betzy Persson Hussénius. After studying to become a teacher in Sweden, she traveled in 1946 to Tanzania (formerly known as Tanganyika) to serve in the Church of Sweden (the Evangelical Lutheran Swedish state church). While she was at her post in Tanzania, she facilitated construction of a girls' school in Kashasha, Bukoba in 1949, and was elected to join the country's parliament in 1959 as Mwanza's constituency representative and member of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) party, which later merged with the Chama Cha Mapinduzi party. Later she became a substantive minister in the Tanzanian Government. She was also the headmaster of a girls' school, adviser to Tanzania's ambassador in Sweden, board member o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Kahama
George may refer to: Names * George (given name) * George (surname) People * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Papagheorghe, also known as Jorge / GEØRGE * George, stage name of Giorgio Moroder * George, son of Andrew I of Hungary Places South Africa * George, South Africa, a city ** George Airport United States * George, Iowa, a city * George, Missouri, a ghost town * George, Washington, a city * George County, Mississippi * George Air Force Base, a former U.S. Air Force base located in California Computing * George (algebraic compiler) also known as 'Laning and Zierler system', an algebraic compiler by Laning and Zierler in 1952 * GEORGE (computer), early computer built by Argonne National Laboratory in 1957 * GEORGE (operating system), a range of operating systems (George 1–4) for the ICT 1900 range of computers in the 1960s * GEORGE (programming language), an autocode system invented by Charles Leonard Ham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roderick Donaldson
Roderick, Rodrick or Roderic (Proto-Germanic , from , + , ) is a Germanic name, recorded from the 8th century onward.Förstemann, ''Altdeutsches Namenbuch'' (1856)740 Its Old High German forms are , , , , , ; in Gothic language ; in Old English language it appears as or , and in Old Norse as (Old East Norse , , Old West Norse as , ). In the 12th-century ''Primary Chronicle'', the name is reflected as , i.e. ''Rurik''. In Spanish and Portuguese, it was rendered as ''Rodrigo'', or in its short form, ''Ruy or Rui'', and in Galician, the name is ''Roy'' or ''Roi''. In Arabic, the form (), used to refer Roderic ( Ulfilan ), the last king of the Visigoths. Saint Roderick () is one of the Martyrs of Córdoba. The modern English name does not continue the Anglo-Saxon form but was re-introduced from the continent by the Normans in medieval England. The Middle English given name had also virtually disappeared by the 19th century, even though it had survived as a surname. The give ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Krishna Beldev
Krishna (; Sanskrit: कृष्ण, ) is a major deity in Hinduism. He is worshipped as the eighth avatar of Vishnu and also as the Supreme God in his own right. He is the god of protection, compassion, tenderness, and love; and is widely revered among Hindu divinities. Krishna's birthday is celebrated every year by Hindus on Krishna Janmashtami according to the lunisolar Hindu calendar, which falls in late August or early September of the Gregorian calendar. The anecdotes and narratives of Krishna's life are generally titled as ''Krishna Līlā''. He is a central figure in the ''Mahabharata'', the ''Bhagavata Purana'', the ''Brahma Vaivarta Purana,'' and the ''Bhagavad Gita'', and is mentioned in many Hindu philosophical, theological, and mythological texts. They portray him in various perspectives: as a god-child, a prankster, a model lover, a divine hero, and the universal supreme being. Quote: "Krsna's various appearances as a divine hero, alluring god child, cosm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Keto
John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second Epistle of John, often shortened to 2 John * Third Epistle of John, often shortened to 3 John People * John the Baptist (died ), regarded as a prophet and the forerunner of Jesus Christ * John the Apostle (died ), one of the twelve apostles of Jesus Christ * John the Evangelist, assigned author of the Fourth Gospel, once identified with the Apostle * John of Patmos, also known as John the Divine or John the Revelator, the author of the Book of Revelation, once identified with the Apostle * John the Presbyter, a figure either identified with or distinguished from the Apostle, the Evangelist and John of Patmos Other people with the given name Religious figures * John, father of Andrew the Apostle and Saint Peter * Pope John (disambigu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leader Stirling
Leader Dominic Stirling (19 January 1906 – 7 February 2003)"Leader Stirling" "Times Online", 8 April 2003, accessed 15 December 2010 was an English missionary surgeon and former in Tanzania. Born in , England and raised in , Stirling attended Bishop's Stortford College ...
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