Practising Self-Government

Practising Self-Government
Author: Yash Ghai
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 517
Release: 2013-08-29
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1107018587

An examination of how the constitutional frameworks for autonomies around the world really work.

A History of the Arab State of Zanzibar

A History of the Arab State of Zanzibar
Author: Norman R. Bennett
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2016-11-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1315411156

During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the fertile islands of Zanzibar and Pemba became of central importance to East Africa’s growing contact with the international economy as the ruling dynasty encouraged trade in cloves, slaves and ivory. This book, first published in 1978, provides an account of the history of Zanzibar from those early days of trade up to independence and the Revolution that removed the Arab ruling class in 1964.

Zanzibar

Zanzibar
Author: Aline Coquelle
Publisher: Assouline Publishing
Total Pages: 6
Release: 2020-05-01
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1614288925

Off the coast of East Africa in the Indian Ocean sits an archipelago known as Zanzibar. It all started ten million years ago when the island of Pemba separated from mainland Africa and then ten thousand years ago, the island of Unguja followed suit. Thus, begins the legend of Zanzibar. For centuries, Zanzibar has been the haven and gateway for explorers including Richard Burton and David Livingstone to penetrate the unknown African Continent. Forward to present day, and it is still possible to experience the unique wildlife whether that is by scuba diving off the coast of a private island, infinite lagoons, visiting mangroves or endemic wild forests; getting lost and immersing yourself into the historical labyrinthine streets of Stonetown. This cluster of islands is at a crossroads of cultures, featuring Omani architecture, Portuguese and British heritages as well as Swahili rituals.

Zanzibar Was a Country

Zanzibar Was a Country
Author: Nathaniel Mathews
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 357
Release: 2024-04-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0520400704

Zanzibar Was a Country traces the history of a Swahili-speaking Arab diaspora from East Africa to Oman. In Oman today, whole communities in Muscat speak Swahili, have recent East African roots, and practice forms of sociality associated with the urban culture of the Swahili coast. These "Omani Zanzibaris" offer the most significant contemporary example in the Gulf, as well as in the wider Indian Ocean region, of an Afro-Arab community that maintains a living connection to Africa in a diasporic setting. While they come from all over East Africa, a large number are postrevolution exiles and emigrés from Zanzibar. Their stories provide a framework for the broader transregional entanglements of decolonization in Africa and the Arabian Gulf. Using both vernacular historiography and life histories of men and women from the community, Nathaniel Mathews argues that the traumatic memories of the Zanzibar Revolution of 1964 are important to nation-building on both sides of the Indian Ocean.

Revolution In Zanzibar

Revolution In Zanzibar
Author: Donald Petterson
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2009-04-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 0786747641

The Cold War exploded in Zanzibar in 1964 when African rebels slaughtered one of every ten Arabs. Led by a strange, messianic Ugandan, Cuban-trained factions headed the rebels, making Zanzibar (in the eyes of Washington) a potentially cancerous base for the communist subversion of mainland Africa. Exotic Zanzibar -- fabled island of spices, former slave-trading entrept, and stepping-off point for 19th century expeditions into the vast interior of the Dark Continent -- had succumbed to the terror of 20th century revolution and Cold War intrigue. In the vivid, eyewitness tradition of The Bang Bang Club and The Skull beneath the Skin , Donald Petterson weaves an engrossing tale of human drama played out against a background of violence and horror. As the only American in Zanzibar throughout the revolution, Petterson reports with the inside authority of a highly placed diplomatic observer, illuminating how the current troubles in Zanzibar are rooted in the Cold War and the revolution of 1964.

Stand on Zanzibar

Stand on Zanzibar
Author: John Brunner
Publisher: Orb Books
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2011-08-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429978848

The brilliant 1969 Hugo Award-winning novel from John Brunner, Stand on Zanzibar, now included with a foreword by Bruce Sterling Norman Niblock House is a rising executive at General Technics, one of a few all-powerful corporations. His work is leading General Technics to the forefront of global domination, both in the marketplace and politically---it's about to take over a country in Africa. Donald Hogan is his roommate, a seemingly sheepish bookworm. But Hogan is a spy, and he's about to discover a breakthrough in genetic engineering that will change the world...and kill him. These two men's lives weave through one of science fiction's most praised novels. Written in a way that echoes John Dos Passos' U.S.A. Trilogy, Stand on Zanzibar is a cross-section of a world overpopulated by the billions. Where society is squeezed into hive-living madness by god-like mega computers, mass-marketed psychedelic drugs, and mundane uses of genetic engineering. Though written in 1968, it speaks of now, and is frighteningly prescient and intensely powerful. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The East Africa Protectorate

The East Africa Protectorate
Author: Charles Eliot
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 392
Release: 1966
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780714616612

First Published in 1966. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Zanzibar

Zanzibar
Author: Helen-Louise Hunter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2009-11-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 0313361967

In the late 1950s, Communists decided that Zanzibar offered them a particular favorable opportunity for expanding their influence.

Tourism and Social Change in Post-Socialist Zanzibar

Tourism and Social Change in Post-Socialist Zanzibar
Author: Akbar Keshodkar
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2013-10-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0739175440

Notions of ustaarabu, a word expressing “civilization,” and questions of identities in Zanzibar have historically been shaped by the development of Islam and association with littoral societies around the Indian Ocean. The 1964 Revolution marked a break in that history and imposed new notions of African civilization and belonging in Zanzibar. The revolutionary state subsequently introduced tourism and the market economy to maintain its hegemony over Zanzibar. In light of these developments, and with locals facing growing socio-economic marginalization and political uncertainty, Tourism and Social Change in Post-Socialist Zanzibar: Struggles for Identity, Movement, and Civilization examines how Zanzibaris are struggling to move through the local landscape in the post-socialist era and articulate their ideas of belonging in Zanzibar. This book further investigates how movements of Zanzibaris within the emerging and contending social discourses are reconstituting meanings for conceptualizing ustaarabu to define their roots in Zanzibar.

Next Stop--Zanzibar Road!

Next Stop--Zanzibar Road!
Author:
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 45
Release: 2012
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0547688520

This fun follow-up to "Welcome to Zanzibar Road" contains five new stories featuring Mama Jumbo, Little Chico, and their friends on Zanzibar Road in an African village. Full color.