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Zanzibar sultanate

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Zanzibar sultanate

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Zanzibar Revolution overthrows the sultanate amid deep social inequality

📅 12 January 1964

An uprising led by the Afro-Shirazi Party and allied forces overthrew the Zanzibar sultanate and its government. The revolution followed a narrow electoral victory by parties associated with Arab...