In March 1964, Zanzibar Revolution icon, self-styled Field Marshal John Okello, ... Nyerere then turned to Karume and ask, “Do you understand what Okello has been saying?” ...

They boycotted the swearing in ceremony of Amani Karume, the candidate of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi Party (Party of the Revolution), who was elected president with 67 percent of the vote.

Book Review - IN HIS COMPELLING NEW BOOK, Prof. Issa Shivji is in no mood for taking prisoners. Instead, he takes some very sacred cows indeed to the slaughter as he dissects the actions of the ...

Petterson, who served as U.S. ambassador in Sudan, Somalia, and Tanzania, began his African diplomatic career at the U.S. consulate in Zanzibar shortly before the island's independence in December ...

As if it had been planned, Karume took advantage of Okello’s absence to accuse him of being an enemy of the state and an unwanted immigrant and was blocked from returning to Zanzibar. Nyerere ...

Zanzibar today, Sunday, January 12, celebrates the Golden Jubilee of the revolution which 50 years ago overthrew the Sultan’s government, after Britain had finally agreed to independence a few weeks ...

On April 20, 1964 the Union between Tanganyika and Zanzibar was agreed upon in principal by Abeid Karume and Julius Nyerere in a closed door meeting in Dar es Salaam attended by only a small ...

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The President arrived at ten in the afternoon. At the airport to greet him were his able Vice President (who combines the baleful glare of Sonny Listen with a Groucho Marx mustache) and the fat, ...