His mother was a slave. Sheikh Abeid Karume was the son of a slave woman from Ruanda-Urundi who moved to Zanzibar when the boy was young. Abeid Karume was not born in Zanzibar The first President of Zanzibar, Sheikh Abeid Karume, was born in Nyasaland, now Malawi, on August 05, 1905. Karume hated and feared...