Collection of Zanzibar publications, 1909-1965.

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Collection of Zanzibar publications, 1909-1965.

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Collection predominantly consists of pre-independent newspapers from Zanzibar, an island of Tanzania off the coast of East Africa, from 1909-1965. The collection holds about 120 volumes covering 22 titles of newspapers. In addition, the collection includes bulletins, journals or journal reprints/stand-alone articles, monographs, booklets, information sheets and meeting minutes. The depth and breadth of this collection reflect socio-cultural-economic-political environments that ensued in Zanzibar from 1909 to 1965. It reveals class dynamics involving the British protectorate administrators in Zanzibar, the Sultan's reign, the Zanzibari natives, and the Zanzibari of Indian and Arabic descents. The overall content of the collection reveals the power of newspapers not only in independence struggles against colonialism but also the continuation of power struggles and ideological differences among individual political parties that were struggling for independence. Lofchie was in Zanzibar at the peak of these struggles in the early 1960s when Zanzibar was in the midst of its transition to an independent state and subsequently to the 1964 Revolution against the Sultan and then to a union with Tanganyika.

13 oversize boxes.

University of California, Los Angeles

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University of California, Los Angeles

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Lofchie, Michael F.

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Professor Michael Lofchie (b. 1936) went to Zanzibar as a graduate student in 1962-63 to study political parties and their conflicts for his dissertation. Immediately after earning his doctorate from UC Berkeley, he returned to Zanzibar as a researcher during the summer of 1964 to do follow-up studies for his book, Zanzibar : background to revolution (Princeton University Press) that was published in 1965. The book provides an invaluable foundation for other scholars to assess dynamics of Zanzib...

University of California, Los Angeles. Dept. of Political Science

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