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{{short description|Tanzanian politician}}
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| name = Asanterabi Zephaniah Nsilo Swai
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| office = Minister of Commerce and Industry of Tanzania
| term_start = 1960
| term_end = 1961
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| term_start2 = January
| term_end2 = March 1962
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| office3 = [[Permanent Representative of Tanzania to the United Nations]]
| term_start3 = July 1962
| term_end3 = December 1962
| predecessor3 = [[Vedastus Kyalakishaija Kyaruzi]]
| successor3 = [[Erasto Andrew Mbwana Mang'enya]]
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| birth_place = [[Moshi, Tanzania]] Kilimanjaro
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He was trained as a teacher at [[Makerere University]] in Uganda and taught at [[Alliance High School (Kenya)]]. Till 1954 he was second principal of the Lyamongu Secondary School in Moshi.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=v5ItAQAAIAAJ&q=%22an+der+Moshi+Secondary+School+(H%C3%B6here+Schule).%22][https://books.google.com/books?id=v5ItAQAAIAAJ&q=%22High+School.+Anschlie%C3%9Fend+erfolgte%22 Deutsche Afrika-Gesellschaft Afrikanische Köpfe – Band 2]</ref>
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'''Asanterabi Zephaniah Nsilo Swai''' (1925–1994) was a pioneer [[Tanzania|Tanzanian]] politician of [[Chaga people|Chagga]] heritage.
*From 1952 to 1954 he was assistant warden at the [[Makerere University]].
*From 1958 to 1960 he was general manager, Meru Cooperative Union and was provincial chairman, [[Tanganyika African National Union]] (TANU) of the Northern Province.
*From 1960 to 1962 he was chairman, TANU Economics and Social Development Committee.
*From 1962 to 1967 he was national treasurer TANU.
*In 1960 he was appointed member of the [[National Assembly (Tanzania)|Legislative Council]].
*From 1960 to 1961 he was Minister of Commerce and Industry.
*From January to March 1962 he was Minister of Health and Labor.
*From July to December 1962 he was Minister without Portfolio and [[Permanent Representative of Tanzania to the United Nations]]
*From 1962 to 1963 he was Minister of Development Planning Tanganyika.
*In 1962 [[Nelson Mandela]] was his guest.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pCdtFEgSQs Documetaries Zetu with Mama Vicki Nsilo Swai (BBC News -The tale of Nelson Mandela boots) ]</ref>
*From 1964 to 1965 he was Minister of State, President's Office Directorate of Planning.
*On {{dts|1965|10|13}} he held a speech before the 1360th meeting of [[United Nations General Assembly]]<ref>[https://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/PV.1360 Sentences 52–84]</ref>
*From September 1965 to March 1967, he was Minister of Industries, Mineral Resources and Power,
*From March 1967 to June 1967, he was Minister of Economic Affairs and Development Planning and chairman of the National Development Corporation.
*In 1967 he was Minister of East African Affairs.
*From 1967 to 1968 he was [[East African Community]] Minister for Communications, Research and Social Services and member, [[East African Legislative Assembly]].<ref>Africa Year Book and Who's who 1977, [https://books.google.com/books?id=QzEuAAAAIAAJ&q=%22general+manager,+Meru+Cooperative+Union,+1+958-60,+provincial+chairman,+Tanganyika+African+National+Union+(TANU),+Northern+Province,+1958-60,+chairman,+TANU+Economics+and+Social+Development%22 p. 1334][https://books.google.com/books?id=QzEuAAAAIAAJ&q=%221962,++Minister+without+Portfolio+and+Permanent+Representative%22][https://books.google.com/books?id=QzEuAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Corporation,+March+1967-June+1967,+Minister+of+East%22]</ref>
[[File:The National Archives UK - CO 1069-166-79.jpg|thumb|The British Secretary of State for the Colonies, [[Iain Macleod]], on the second day of his first visit to Tanganyika, 18 December 1959, meets Tanganyika Government ministers and political leaders. Right to left, front row: [[Ernest Albert Vasey]], Minister of Finance; Mr [[John Fletcher-Cooke]], Deputy Governor; [[Richard Turnbull (colonial governor)]], Governor of Tanganyika; [[Iain Macleod]]; [[Julius Nyerere]]; back row: John Sydney Richard Cole, Attorney General,<ref>John Sydney Richard Cole, QC (Somaliland) (24 Jan 1907 – 1989 Aug 15), Attorney-General and Member for Legal Affairs in Tanganyika since September 1959, remains Attorney-General</ref> William Bonnar Leslie Monson (1912–1993), Under-Secretary, Colonial Office; next two unknown; on right, behind [[Julius Nyerere]], Mr Nsilo Swai (later a minister),]]
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[[Category:Tanzanian politicians]]
[[Category:Permanent Representatives of Tanzania to the United Nations]]
[[Category:People from Kilimanjaro Region]]
[[Category:Tanganyika African National Union politicians]]
[[Category:Tanzanian Roman Catholics]]
[[Category:Tanzanian pan-Africanists]]