Ebrahim Kassam

Mr. Ebrahim Kassam

Town of birth

• Zanzibar

Country of birth

• Tanzania

Place of Death

• Wajir

Country of death

• Kenya

Source of Information

• Source:The Official Gazette of the Colony & Protectorate of Kenya (Special Issue) Vol XL No 60 (November 13th 1938) Indian & Arab Voters Roll

Place of longest stay

• Wajir(1938)

Profession or occupation carriedout for the longest period in life

• Clerk

Where-City or Country

• Kenya

Family tree

Partners

Gulshan Ebrahim Kassam

Children

Esmail Ebrahim Kassam

Hassam Ebrahim Kassam

Zaher Kassam

Born in Zanzibar

"While Samachar supported the Clove Growers* Association and the government, and in turn received lucrative government printing contracts, the Zanzibar Voice, edited by the Ismaili Ebrahim Kassam, sided with the traders.

After World War II as a nationalist movement developed, the rift between the two newspapers widened. dummyLink0 continued its conservative course by backing the Arabs and the government-favoured Nationalist Party. The Zanzibar Voice adopted the radical policy of support for an independent government under African control and backed the Afro-Shirazi Party. "

Asians in East Africa by Robert G Gregory (pp 168)