H.E President Samia Suluhu has appointed our Alumnus and former Chief Minister (CM) of Zanzibar and Defence and National Services minister Shamsi Vuai Nahodha, as a member of parliament.

Hon. Shamsi Vuai Nahodha is our October 2021 ‘Alumnus of the Month’, a man many recall to have been such a cool, attentive and welcoming personality during his student days. He continued to be a man of firm attributes of a kind, loyal yet principled leader he symbolises today.

In 1984, he joined UDSM for a three-year degree study programme in languages and language education, thereby preparing himself for a teaching career in languages and graduated in 1987-B.A (Education). He joined the educational-training team of the JKU [Jeshi la Kujenga Uchumi] for two years in 1987-1988, after which he concerned himself more with regular politics of development and participation.
In 1996, He decided to undertake a postgraduate training course in international relations and diplomacy at the Centre for Foreign Relations at Kurasini in DSM, from where he obtained a diploma in 1997. In the next decade, he was to be involved in elective politics, winning Mwera constituency for the House of Representatives for the period running from 2000‒2005. In 2005, Mr Nahodha joined the Open University of Tanzania (OUT) for a Master of Business Administration (MBA)degree and graduated in 2008.

He has spent most of his working life in politics and political leadership, particularly since year 2000 when he first entered the House of Representatives as a Member of the House of Representatives for Mwera (2000-2005). He was subsequently appointed as Chief Minister in the Zanzibar Revolutionary Government (2000‒10) and, thereafter, elected as Member of the Union Parliament for Mwanakwerekwe (2005‒2010 and 2010-15). Hon. Nahodha served also as a member both in his Party’s [CCM] Central Committee and in the National Executive Council (2000-2016). Within this time period, he was trusted with high-level government appointments, Minister for the Union Ministry of Home Affairs (2010‒2012), for Defence and National Service (2012-13), as well as Member to the Constitutional, Legal Affairs and Governance Committee of Parliament (2013-2015). Hon. Nahodha was re-elected to the Union Parliament in 2016 for the five-year term to 2020.

Read more on his achievements in the attached PDF