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Social Memory, Silenced Voices, and Political Struggle: Remembering the Revolution in Zanzibar

Social Memory, Silenced Voices, and Political Struggle: Remembering the Revolution in Zanzibar

Bissell, William Cunningham
Fouéré, Marie-Aude

Paperback

African HistoryGeneral Political ScienceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 998708317X
ISBN13: 9789987083176
Publisher: Mkuki na Nyota Publishers
Published: Apr 24 2018
Pages: 404
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.83 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

This volume focuses on the cultural memory and mediation of the 1964 Zanzibar revolution, analyzing it's continuing reverberations in everyday life. The revolution constructed new conceptions of community and identity, race and cultural belonging, as well as instituting different ideals of nationhood, citizenship, sovereignty. As the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the revolution revealed, the official versions of events have shifted significantly over time and the legacy of the uprising is still deeply contested. In these debates, the question of Zanzibari identity remains very much at stake: Who exactly belongs in the islands and what historical processes brought them there? What are the boundaries of the nation, and who can claim to be an essential part of this imagined and embodied community?

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