Zanzibar Was A Country

Author : Nathaniel Mathews
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520394526
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zanzibar Was a Country written by Nathaniel Mathews and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : David Else
Publisher : Bradt Travel Guides
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Guide to Zanzibar written by David Else and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 1998 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zanzibar -- the legendary "Spice Islands" in the Indian Ocean -- is rapidly becoming more accessible, attracting an increasing number of tourists. David Else's definitive guide to the islands is now fully updated, including brand new maps and comprehensive information on hotels, guesthouses, restaurants, and transport as well as on the diving, spice tours, and wildlife reserves which this exotic and friendly location offers. With background information also on the history and culture of Zanzibar, this guide provides everything a traveler needs to explore these beautiful islands.

Author : Yash Ghai
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107018587
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Practising Self-Government written by Yash Ghai and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of how the constitutional frameworks for autonomies around the world really work.

Author : Norman R. Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315411156
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of the Arab State of Zanzibar written by Norman R. Bennett and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Aline Coquelle
Publisher : Assouline Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614288925
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zanzibar written by Aline Coquelle and published by Assouline Publishing. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Akbar Keshodkar
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739175440
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tourism and Social Change in Post-Socialist Zanzibar written by Akbar Keshodkar and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : John Brunner
Publisher : Orb Books
ISBN 13 : 1429978848
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stand on Zanzibar written by John Brunner and published by Orb Books. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Charles Eliot
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780714616612
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The East Africa Protectorate written by Charles Eliot and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1966 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1966. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Helen-Louise Hunter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313361967
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Zanzibar written by Helen-Louise Hunter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-11-25 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1950s, Communists decided that Zanzibar offered them a particular favorable opportunity for expanding their influence.

Author : Don Petterson
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786747641
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Revolution In Zanzibar written by Don Petterson and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 entrepôt, 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.