Mrisho Sarakikya

Mrisho S.H. Sarakikya was the first chief of the Tanzania People's Defence Force (TPDF). He was given command of the TPDF soon after the army mutiny of 1964, when either a captain (Reuters 1967) or a lieutenant (Kaplan 1978).

He was born at Meru, Tanzania in 1964; educated at Tabora Government Secondary School; entered the Tanzanian portion of the King's African Rifles as a private in 1958; and later attended the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.[1]

From 1964 to 1974, he commanded the TPDF.[2] He was succeeded by Lieutenant General Abdallah Twalipo 1974–1980.[3]

References

Sydney Taylor, ed. (1967). The New Africans: Reuters Guide to the Contemporary History of Emergent Africa & its Leaders. London: Paul Hamlyn. p. 434.
Irving Kaplan, Tanzania: A Country Study, Library of Congress Country Studies, First Edition, 1978, p. 248–249, and General Sarakikya attends Royal Military Academy's 50th reunion in Sandhurst Archived 2013-07-24 at the Wayback Machine, Arusha Times, 13–19 August 2011.
Irving Kaplan, Tanzania: A Country Study, Library of Congress Country Studies, First Edition, 1978, p. 249, says that Twalipo took command in 1974.

Military offices
Preceded by Brigadier Patrick Douglas (as Commander, Tanganyika Rifles)	Chief of Tanzanian People's Defence Force 1964-1974	Succeeded by Abdallah Twalipo

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[1] Sydney Taylor, ed. (1967). The New Africans: Reuters Guide to the Contemporary History of Emergent Africa & its Leaders. London: Paul Hamlyn. p. 434.

[2] Irving Kaplan, Tanzania: A Country Study, Library of Congress Country Studies, First Edition, 1978, p. 248–249, and General Sarakikya attends Royal Military Academy's 50th reunion in Sandhurst Archived 2013-07-24 at the Wayback Machine, Arusha Times, 13–19 August 2011.

[3] Irving Kaplan, Tanzania: A Country Study, Library of Congress Country Studies, First Edition, 1978, p. 249, says that Twalipo took command in 1974.