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Afro-Shirazi Party

LC control no.n 79053715
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Corporate name headingAfro-Shirazi Party
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Variant(s)A.S.P.
ASP
Shirazi Party (Tanzania)
See alsoPredecessor: African Association (Tanzania)
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Predecessor: Shirazi Association (Tanzania)
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Successor: Chama cha Mapinduzi
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Beginning date19570205
Ending date1977-01
Associated countryZanzibar Tanzania
Found inThe 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)