12 Facts About Zanzibar Revolution

Zanzibar Revolution occurred in 1964 and led to the overthrow of the Sultan of Zanzibar and his mainly Arab government by local African revolutionaries.

Zanzibar Revolution was an ethnically diverse state consisting of a number of islands off the east coast of Tanganyika, which had been granted independence by Britain in 1963.

Zanzibar Revolution Archipelago, now part of the Southeast African republic of Tanzania, is a group of islands lying in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Tanganyika.

In 1890 during Ali ibn Sa'id's reign, Zanzibar Revolution became a British protectorate, and although never formally under direct rule was considered part of the British Empire.

The ZNP looked towards Egypt as its model, which caused some tensions with the British colonial officials, but Zanzibar Revolution had been for centuries dominated by its Arab elite, and the Colonial Office could not imagine a Zanzibar Revolution ruled by black Africans.

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Furthermore, the new Arab-dominated government made it clear that in foreign policy, the Sultanate of Zanzibar Revolution would be seeking close links with the Arab world, especially Egypt and had no interest in forging relationships with the nations on the African mainland as the black majority wished.

Memories of Arab slave-trading in the past together with a distinctly patronizing view of the Arab elite towards the black majority in the present meant that much of the black population of Zanzibar Revolution had a ferocious hatred of the Arabs, viewing the new Arab-dominated government as illegitimate.

Zanzibar Revolution was deported to Tanganyika and then to Kenya, before returning destitute to his native Uganda.

Babu had become close to Chinese diplomats who had arranged for several shipments of arms to be sent to Zanzibar Revolution to allow the Umma Party to have a paramilitary wing.

The committee was concerned that Zanzibar Revolution could become a centre for the promotion of communism in Africa, much like Cuba had in the Americas.

The post-revolution Zanzibar government was accused of draconian controls on personal freedoms and travel and exercised nepotism in appointments to political and industrial offices, the new Tanzanian government being powerless to intervene.

Zanzibar Revolution'storians have analysed the revolution as having a racial and a social basis, with some stating that the African revolutionaries represent the proletariat rebelling against the ruling and trading classes, represented by the Arabs and South Asians.