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Race, revolution, and the struggle for human rights in Zanzibar : the memoirs of Ali Sultan Issa and Seif Sharif Hamad by G. Thomas Burgess; Seif Sharif Hamad; Ali Sultan Issa is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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Zanzibar 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 Zanzibars 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 the politics of race. Their opponents instead deplore the violence of the revolution, espouse the language of human rights, and claim the revolution reversed a century of social and economic development. They reject the politics of race, regarding Islam as a more worthy basis for cultural and political unity. From a series of personal interviews conducted over several years, Thomas Burgess has produced two highly readable first-person narratives in which two nationalists in Africa describe their
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- Author
- G. Thomas Burgess; Seif Sharif Hamad; Ali Sultan Issa
- Publisher
- Ohio University Press in association with Miami University; Ohio University Press
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780821418260
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Education, History, Biography
- Rating
- 4.6 / 5 (1 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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