ISBN:
9780520394520
,
9780520400702
Language:
English
Pages:
xvi, 338 Seiten
,
Karten
Series Statement:
The California world history library 32
Series Statement:
The California world history library
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Mathews, Nathaniel, 1981- Zanzibar was a country
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Mathews, Nathaniel Zanzibar was a country
DDC:
967.8/104
Keywords:
Swahili-speaking peoples History
;
Swahili-speaking peoples Migrations
;
History
;
Nationalism
;
Oman Emigration and immigration
;
History
;
Zanzibar History Revolution, 1964
Abstract:
"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 the wider Indian Ocean, of an Afro-Arab community who maintain a living connection to Africa in a diasporic setting. While they come from all over East Africa, a large number are post-revolution exiles and emigres 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"--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : exile, economic divergence, and ethnic citizenship -- Immigration, exogenous origins and the politics of citizenship in Zanzibar, 1957-1963 -- Violence and emigration in the Zanzibar revolution, 1964-1965 -- 'On behalf of Zanzibaris abroad' : the Zanzibar organization and postcolonial Tanzanian politics, 1964-1985 -- Zanzibari diaspora communities in the Arabian Gulf, 1964-1977 -- Return migration from East Africa and the politics of citizenship in Oman, 1970-2020 -- Transregional relations, Omani heritage, and a vernacular historiography of Zanzibar, 1990-2020 -- Conclusion.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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