Aboud Jumbe

Biography

Aboud Jumbe Mwinyi (14 June 1920 – 14 August 2016) was a Tanzanian politician who served as the second President of Zanzibar from 1972 to 1984. He held several other positions, including Chairman of the Zanzibar Revolutionary Council, vice-president of the Union of Tanzania, and the vice-chairman of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party. He succeeded Abeid Karume as president, following Karume's assassination on 7 April 1972. He was initially elected by the Revolutionary Council as a part of the Afro-Shirazi Party (ASP). While he was in office, in 1977, the two ruling parties of Tanzania merged. In particular, the ASP and the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU), merged to create Tanzania's ruling party, the CCM. In 1979, Jumbe introduced the first post-revolution constitution of Zanzibar. This separated the powers of the Revolutionary Council and the House of Representatives.

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