The Late Dr. Assaria was born in Kampala, Uganda in 1935. Upon the completion of his secondary school education in Uganda, he proceeded to the United Kingdom in 1956 to pursue medical studies. After graduating as a Doctor of medicine in 1964, he returned to Mombasa, Kenya. Marhum Dr. Assaria’s community services include being the Hon. Secretary of...
His Message when he was Re-Elected as the President of Dar es Salaam Jamaat Dear Brothers-in-faith, Salaamun Alaykum. At the outset I take this opportunity to thank all members for electing me for the second successive term as the President of the Dar es Salaam Jamaat. I am all too conscious of the support and confidence placed in...
Marhum Hassanali bhai Sabur was originally a resident of Uganda. He was born at Mbale, Uganda on 4th September 1923. Hassanali bhai had been very active in community affairs for a long time. He served as the Secretary, Treasurer, Vice-President, President, Trustee and Committee Member at Mbale Jamaat during the period from 1951 to 1972. In 1972, when...
In 1988, the then Chairman of the Federation, Alhaj Mohamed Dhirani and other office-bearers of the Federation paid a visit to Morogoro and Dodoma Jamaats. These were the only Jamaats which had not been visited by the Chairman during his term in office. The official delegation comprising of all four office-bearers of the Federation namely the Chairman -...
Murabbi Karimbhai Rehmtullah (Asgarali’s father) served as President of Khoja Shia Ithna’asheri Jamaat of Kigoma in 1950’s. His mother Fatemabai was the daughter of Alhaj Suleman Ramji who was one of the first Khoja to settle in Arusha in the late 1890’s. Karimbhai and Fatemabai had ten children - seven sons named Rafiq, Asgarali, Hassan, Hussein, Haider, Mohammed,...
During the reign of Sultan Bargash and prior to the arrival of the Khojas, Shias of Zanzibar felt the necessity of having a place of worship, where they could perform the 'Azadari of Imam Hussein (a.s)'. The need for a place of worship became rather crucial as more and more Shias from Bahrain, Muscat and Iran decided to...
Kaniz-e-Zehrabai Gulamhussein Chandoo (popularly known as Kanizbai/Baiji of Tanga) Kanizbai was born in Zanzibar in November 1927. She was the eldest of five children, of Late Fazal Meghji and Fatmabai Alibhai. She was initially brought up in the house of her grandfather, Marhum Alibhai Dhanji, but had to return to her father’s house upon the demise of her...
TANGA JAMAAT REMEMBERS THE TRAGIC LOSS OF A DEDICATED SOCIAL WORKER Alhaj Shaukatali Mohamedhussein Dhirani was born on 7th June 1948 at Pangani, Tanga. His parents, Alhaj Mohamedhussein Fazal Dhirani and Fatma bai lived in Pangani and later moved to Tanga. Shaukatali completed his primary and secondary education in Karimjee Primary School and in Karimjee Secondary School in...
75 years ago, in November 1945, the preliminary conference to establish Africa Federation was held. This is a story of how it all started. A discussion for creation of Federation - or Conference - as it was then called - was started by some of our brothers in Mombasa in 1927. Due to lack of support from the...
Alhaj Husseinali Nurmohammad Ladha was born in Bukoba on 13th June 1942. He was the fourth son in the family of Alhaj Nurmohammad Ladha. He started school in 1951 in Government Indian Public School and passed his senior Cambridge examination in 1962. At School he was friendly to all his fellow students of his age group and even...
