LC control no. | n 79053715 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Corporate name heading | Afro-Shirazi Party |
Variant(s) | A.S.P. ASP Shirazi Party (Tanzania) |
See also | Predecessor: African Association (Tanzania) Predecessor: Shirazi Association (Tanzania) Successor: Chama cha Mapinduzi |
Beginning date | 19570205 |
Ending date | 1977-01 |
Associated country | Zanzibar Tanzania |
Found in | The History of Zanzibar Africans ... 1970? Statesman yrbk., 1983-84: p. 1169 (The Tanganyika African National Union and the Afro-Shirazi Party in Zanzibar merged into one revolutionary party, Chama cha Mapinduzi, in Jan. 1977) Facts on file, History database search website, viewed Sep. 19, 2014 (Karume, Abeid Amani; in the early 1950s he became president of the Zanzibar African Association, a labor union of black migrant workers; in 1957 that association joined the Shirazi Association to form the Afri-Shirazi Party (ASP), Karume was named the party's president; Julius Nyerere was a co-founder) Info. from field 678, Sep. 19, 2014 (African Association & Shirazi Association merged on 5 Feb. 1957 to form Afro-Shirazi Party) |