Umma_Party_(Zanzibar)

Umma Party (Zanzibar)

Umma Party (Zanzibar)

Political party in Zanzibar

The Umma Party was a Socialist political party in Zanzibar. It was founded in 1963 by disaffected socialist Arabs from the ruling Zanzibar Nationalist Party.[1] It was led by Abdulrahman Muhammad Babu and supported the Afro-Shirazi Party during the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution.[2] Babu was made Minister of External Affairs following the revolution.[2] The party merged into the Afro-Shirazi Party on 8 March 1964.

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References

  1. [1]
    Bakari 2001, p. 204
  2. [2]
    Speller 2007, p. 7

Bibliography

  • Bakari, Mohammed Ali (2001), The Democratisation Process in Zanzibar, GIGA-Hamburg, ISBN 3-928049-71-2.
  • Speller, Ian (2007), "An African Cuba? Britain and the Zanzibar Revolution, 1964." (PDF), Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 35 (2): 1–35, doi:10.1080/03086530701337666, S2CID 159656717.


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