Zakia meghji biography of william

My late husband Ramadhan Meghji and I knew Walter Rodney when we were students at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania.

Ramadhan Meghji was a student of economics while I majored in history the subject that Walter Rodney taught. However, we were both active in Hill politics. The name Hill was a reference to the University.

Former Finance Minister, Zakia Meghji was yesterday alleged to have cast her vote for the proposed new Constitution as a delegate from the Isles.

We were both students there from to

I can say that I knew Walter Rodney first as my lecturer but also later as a family friend together with his wife Pat and their children. At the university, Walter taught history and I was one of his students.

Walter exposed us to a lot of ideas, ideas that lingered on and influenced my whole outlook to society and political life. I did history in High school; African history. With Walters lectures I realized that we were greatly misled by our former teachers in high school showing that Africans were underdeveloped because they were lazy, not initiative and they were poor because they wer