Juma was born on 26 June 1941 in Chake Chake, Pemba, Zanzibar.He served as Vice President of Tanzania from 1995 to 2001.

Attended primary school education between 1949 and 1957 at Chake Chake Boys' School. From 1957 to 1960 he was at Euan Smith Secondary School (now Haile Selassie Secondary School) where he attained an Ordinary Level School Certificate. In 1960 he joined the Moscow State University and was awarded with an Advanced Level Certificate in 1962 and seven years later, at the same college, he attained a Bachelor's degree in Veterinary Medicine and Surgery. For a year from 1969 he was at Cairo University for a post graduate certificate in Animal Production and Health. In 1976 he attended a one year course for a Post Graduate Diploma in Tropical Veterinary Medicine at Edinburgh University. In 1982 he joined the University of Florida in the USA for a short course in Veterinary Science and two years later he was at Reading University, UK, for a Livestock Economics course from which he joined the Kivukoni Ideological College (Tanzania).

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