The Union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar and our past

President Julius Nyerere and his Zanzibar counterpart Abeid Amani Karume wave to the people from an open car during celebrations of the Union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar.

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One Ali Msham and a group of men holding axes, and an arrow who were described as Bantu Group-a militia which provided security for TANU leaders. The photo was said to have been taken in the mid-1950s.