Background
Hasnu Makam E was born in 1920 in Zanzibar, United Republic of Tanzania.
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Hasnu Makam E
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Educated at Dole Secondary School and Teacher Training Centre, before going to Exeter to do a public administration course.
Career
He returned to teach in 1945 and after three years joined government service as a mudirial officer, switching to labour officer in 1957. In 1961 he stood for Parliament in Zanzibar and won a seat for the Afro-Shirazi party, then in opposition. He rose to become treasurer of the party and, after the Zanzibar coup in January 1964, was chosen as Zanzibar’s Minister of Finance and Development and, shortly afterwards, was appointed as the Zanzibar Ambassador to the USA for a brief period.
The union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar followed in April 1964 and he went to Dar es Salaam as Minister of State for External Affairs in the Union government. Since then, he has been Minister of Communications (1964), Health, (1965) and Minister of State in the President’s Office, dealing with Foreign Affairs, and Minister for Information and Tourism. The Information Ministry was removed from his portfolio in November 1970.
Personality
A Muslim sheikh from Zanzibar, he spent years on the island in opposition and then suddenly found himself a minister and Ambassador to the USA after the Zanzibar coup. Since the union with Tanzania he is one of those ministers whom Nyerere called to Dar es Salaam to hold successive ministerial appointments on the mainland.
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Tanzanian
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November 5, 1970