Word: abeid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1957-1957
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...black majority awoke to a new sense of its own importance. Once they had been divided-the Africans from the mainland, and the other blacks, who call themselves Shirazis and claim descent from Persian conquerors. The two factions came together under the leadership of 52-year-old Abeid Annane Karume, described by one local Briton as "the Ernie Bevin of the Zanzibar workingmen's movement." The son of a slave woman from Ruanda-Urandi, a longtime merchant seaman whose 22 years at sea carried him to most of the world's ports, including the U.S., Karume eventually rose...