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Zanzibar: the Politics of Revolutionary Inequality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 November 2008

George W. Triplett
George W. Triplett
Affiliation:
Dar es Salaam
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Seven years have passed since the overthrow of the independent Arab government of Zanzibar on 12 January 1964, and the installation of a revolutionary African government. The goals of the revolution at that time were, summarily stated: (i) African majority rule, to be implemented through a one-party system; (ii) the nationalisation of the land and the abolition of what were deemed to be the capitalist, exploitative classes; and (iii) an end to racial discrimination and favouritism, which, in practice, was to mean easier African access to jobs, schools, medical treatment, and land ownership — see Zanzibar Government, 1964–1967: We Have Completed Three Tears: the Fruits of the Revolution in the Islands (Zanzibar, 1967), pp. iii-vi.

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Africana
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The Journal of Modern African Studies , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , December 1971 , pp. 612 - 617
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1971

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