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Title: Zanzibar Was a Country
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Description: 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: Nathaniel Mathews
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0520400704
EAN: 9780520400702
ISBN: 9780520400702
Genre: Society & Culture
Language: English
Item Height: 229mm
Item Length: 152mm
Item Width: 25mm
Item Weight: 499g
Subtitle: Exile and Citizenship between East Africa and the Gulf
Publisher: University of California Press
Topic: Social Sciences, Law & Politics, History
Release Date: 09/04/2024
Book Series: California World History Library
Release Year: 2024

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