Principal Skinner

Uehghweuhgu Skinner (born February 1, 1945 in Zanzibar) is without a doubt one of Zanzibar's most famous people. He has been a racing driver, helicopter pilot, actor, Olympic professional cyclist and pianist. Skinner is nowadays involved in politics and currently battling for the Zanzibar presidency. He is also notable for having facial hair similar to Robert Mugabe.

Personal life
Skinner was born to Gwandoya Skinner and Ige Skinner (nee Mukusi) in Zanzibar on February 1, 1945 at approximately 3:50 pm.

Skinner got his unusual first name because of the mentally insane doctor who couldn't write, and as a result botched up Skinner's birth certificate, giving him the well-known first name commonly heard in Zanzibar today. Despite this, it is commonly hard to either spell or pronounce and Skinner has created his own song to get people to remember it (called "It's U-A-Gway-Oo-Goo").

Skinner got his big break when he appeared as Zanzibar's sole representative at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo as a cyclist in the Men's Road Race. He finished in 88th place, thus earning him the nickname "The Zany Zanziban" because of his antics in which he very nearly knocked Gosta Petterson off his bike, earning him a 3-minute time penalty. Skinner reacted to this by unscrewing the saddle from Petterson's bike afterwards, further angering the Swede.

After this, Skinner was the first Zanziban and black driver in Formula One when he entered the 1967 South African Grand Prix driving a Cooper-Climax. He retired from the race after only 5 laps with engine failure. He attempted again at the following year's race and dramatically improved, finishing just outside the points in seventh. Skinner would retire from motorsport after this.

Skinner then turned to racing in the World Helicopter Racing Championships where he made a wildcard appearance in the 2001 South African Grand Prix and finished 14th. He also raced in many national events across Africa.

In 2002 Skinner became an actor, and his first movie role was as Dr. Donothing in the 2003 film Backdoor Bandits IV, his character's name being a parody of Dr. Dolittle. He also starred as the title character in Mr. Blister (2011) and as himself in the Dennis the Menace animated series (2013).

Skinner has also been the pianist for many music videos such as Take Me To Heaven by John Goode (1991) and 1-2-3-4 by The Classy Crew (2007). Since starting a career in politics he has tried and failed numerous times to be President of Zanzibar over Ali Mohamed Shein.

Formula One results

 * 1967: [[File:Flag of South Africa 1928-1994.svg.png]] RSA (Ret)
 * 1968: [[File:Flag of South Africa 1928-1994.svg.png]] RSA (7th)

Olympic results

 * [[File:Flag of Japan svg.png]] Tokyo 1964 - 88th in the Men's Individual Road Race