Zanzibar Was a Country

Exile and Citizenship between East Africa and the Gulf

Nathaniel Mathews (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

358 Seiten

2024
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-40070-2 (ISBN)

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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 in the wider Indian Ocean region, of an Afro-Arab community that maintains a living connection to Africa in a diasporic setting. While they come from all over East Africa, a large number are postrevolution exiles and emigrés 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.

Nathaniel Mathews is a historian of East Africa and the Indian Ocean. He received his PhD from Northwestern University and is currently Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at SUNY Binghamton.

Contents

Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations

Introduction: Diaspora, Development, and National Citizenship in the Indian Ocean

PART ONE
BELONGING IN ZANIBAR
1 • Immigration, Exogenous Origins, and the Politics of Citizenship in Zanzibar, 1957–1963
2 • Violence and Emigration in the Zanzibar Revolution, 1964–1965

PART TWO
BELONGING IN DIASPORA
3 • “On Behalf of Zanzibaris Abroad”: The Zanzibar Organization and Postcolonial Tanzanian Politics, 1964–1985
4 • Zanzibari Diaspora Communities in the Arabian Gulf, 1964–1977

PART THREE
BELONGING IN OMAN
5 • Return Migration from East Africa and the Politics of Citizenship in Oman, 1970–2020
6 • Transregional Relations, Omani Heritage, and a Vernacular Historiography of Zanzibar, 1990–2020
Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	08.05.2024
Reihe/Serie	California World History Library ; 32
Zusatzinfo	1 b-w figures
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-40070-4 / 0520400704
ISBN-13	978-0-520-40070-2 / 9780520400702
Zustand	Neuware