Afro-Shirazi Party

Afro-Shirazi Party
Leader	Abeid Karume
Founded	5th February 1957
Dissolved	January 1977
Preceded by	Shiraz Party and Afro Party
Succeeded by	Chama cha Mapinduzi
Headquarters	Zanzibar City, Zanzibar
Youth wing	Afro-Shirazi Youth League
Ideology	African nationalism Marxism–Leninism
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A kanga celebrating TANU and ASP (House of Wonders museum, Stone Town, Zanzibar)

The Afro-Shirazi Party (ASP) was the union between the mostly Shirazi Shiraz Party and the mostly African Afro Party in the island of Zanzibar. The formation of ASP led to the ouster of the Arabs from power with the Zanzibar Revolution in 1964. The party joined with the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) to form Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) in January 1977.

See also

• Tanganyika African Association
• Tanganyika African National Union