page_title: Seif Sharif Hamad
section_title: Early life and career
hierarchical_section_title: Seif Sharif Hamad / Early life and career
caption_attribution_description: English: Seif Sharif Hamad at the 2013 Zanzibar International Film Festival.
context_page_description: Seif Sharif Hamad is a Zanzibari politician. He was the secretary-general of the opposition Civic United Front party and first vice president of Zanzibar until 18 March 2019 when he announced to resign from CUF and joined Alliance for Change and Transparency. He was given an ACT Wazalendo card number One.also won the party nomination for the 2020 presidential candidate for Zanzibar.
context_section_description: 1950–1957: Hamad attended Primary School at Uondwe and Wete Boys School, in Pemba. He started his secondary education from 1958–1961, at King George VI Memorial Secondary School, in Zanzibar Town, Zanzibar. Hamad goes on to attend High school education at the same school from 1962–1963.
  After completing high school in December 1963, for the next nine years (1964–1972), he was prevented from pursuing University Education because he was required to fill in one of the vacancies in the civil service caused by the mass departure of British officials in 1964, after being asked to do so by the new Zanzibar Revolutionary Government. He was posted to teach in Secondary Schools, before joining University of Dar es Salaam in 1972–1975, and graduated with B.A. (Honors) in Political Science, Public Administration and International Relations.
caption: Maalim Seif
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