Shina La CCM Reading -United Kingdom

The party was created February 5, 1977, under the leadership of Julius Nyerere, as the merger of the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU), the then ruling party in Tanganyika, and the Afro-Shirazi Party (ASP), the then ruling party in Zanzibar. TANU/CCM has dominated the politics of Tanzania since the independence of Tanganyika in 1962.