Chief Adam Abdul exchanges a few words with President Jakaya Kikwete
Meeting him for the first time, he looks like any other 14 year old boy who enjoys playing games on the laptop, riding his bicycle and enjoys playing basketball when he is not doing his homework or helping out in their family shop.
Until last month, he was known to many as Adam Abdul, the only son of the late Chief Abdul Adam Sapi Mkwawa, who died in February 2015.
But today people in his town particularly his Hehe tribe in Southern Highlands know him as Chief Adam, one of the youngest in the Mkwawa line to be vested with the title; Chief.
Chief Adam is the sixth individual to be recognized as Chief, his late father was fifth in line. He is however the youngest person to hold such authority – becoming a leader to millions of Hehes who occupy the Iringa region of southern Tanzania, one of the few remaining kingdoms that portray the images of pre-colonial Africa.
Chief Adam, whose full name is Adam Abdul Adam Sapi Mkwawa or Mfwime II, lives with his family in a family home located along Samora area in a busy Iringa town, a place where his late father, Chief Abdul Adam Sapi Mkwawa spent most of his time. Chief Adam studies at Highland primary school, a private school in Iringa town.
His birth
Born in 2001, Adam’s birth according to his mother, Shamra Abdul was a lucky one to their family because it was something that wasn’t planned.
According to Shamra, being blessed with four children, all of them being girls prompted her and her husband to call it quits. So when she was pregnant with Adam, and later conceived, it was a surprising blessing.
“After giving birth to the first and second child, both being girls, my mother-in-law suggested that I take some medicine which would help me conceive boys stating that genetically I have the ability to conceive mostly girls,” says the mother.
A desperate Shamra agreed to take some medicine, but that didn’t change anything because her third and fourth children she later gave birth to were both girls.
“I thanked God for the children he had already blessed us with and we considered and we decided not to have more children, but God had other plans for us because in 2001 Adam was born.
I must admit that I had a difficult pregnancy to the point that I was told that I was going to have to give birth through C-section.
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