The Umma Party was a socialist political party in Zanzibar. It was founded in 1963 by disaffected socialist Arabs from the ruling Zanzibar Nationalist Party.[1] It was led by Abdulrahman Muhammad Babu and supported the Afro-Shirazi Party during the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution.[2] Babu was made Minister of External Affairs following the revolution.[2] The party merged into the Afro-Shirazi Party on 8 March 1964.
Umma Party | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Abdulrahman Muhammad Babu |
| Founded | 1963 |
| Dissolved | 8 March 1964 |
| Split from | Zanzibar Nationalist Party |
| Merged into | Afro-Shirazi Party |
| Ideology | Zanzibari nationalism Marxism Arab socialism Republicanism Arab interests |
| Political position | Far-left |
References
edit- ^ Bakari 2001, p. 204
- ^ a b Speller 2007, p. 7
Bibliography
edit- Bakari, Mohammed Ali (2001), The Democratisation Process in Zanzibar, GIGA-Hamburg, ISBN 3-928049-71-2.
- Speller, Ian (2007), "An African Cuba? Britain and the Zanzibar Revolution, 1964." (PDF), Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 35 (2): 1–35, doi:10.1080/03086530701337666, S2CID 159656717.
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