Race, Revolution, and the Struggle for Human Rights in Zanzibar - 9780821418512

Race, Revolution, and the Struggle for Human Rights in ZanzibarThe Memoirs of Ali Sultan Issa and Seif Sharif Hamad\nAuthor(s): G. Thomas Burgess\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Ohio University Press, United States\nImprint: Ohio University Press\nISBN-13: 9780821418512, 978-0821418512\nSynopsis\nZanzibar has had the most turbulent postcolonial history of any part of the United Republic of Tanzania, yet few sources explain the reasons why. The current political impasse in the islands is a contest over the question of whether to revere and sustain the Zanzibari Revolution of 1964, in which thousands of islanders, mostly Arab, lost their lives. It is also about whether Zanzibar's union with the Tanzanian mainlandcemented only a few months after the revolutionshould be strengthened, reformed, or dissolved. Defenders of the revolution claim it was necessary to right a century of wrongs. They speak the language of African nationalism and aspire to unify the majority of Zanzibaris through th.