Would Zanzibar have fared better (politically) as an independent state?
Considering the potential legacies of '64
I: A successful case of a political union?
Exactly 59 years ago today a revolution in Zanzibar swept away the Omani sultanate that had dominated the archipelago for the better part of two centuries.
The stylized account of the political history of Zanzibar that I was taught paints it as a triumph of Pan-Africanism: A revolution of Black Africans ousted …