Congrats Zanzibar on 50 years of revolution

>Zanzibar yesterday marked the day when, 51 years ago, a disparate group of very ordinary people in the “Clove Island,” armed with rudimentary weapons, overthrew the undemocratic regime led by a sultan and his local collaborators at the expense of the popular Afro Shirazi Party (ASP).

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Roughly 150 hours ago, which is a somewhat idiotic way of saying one week ago, but which I’m applying to prove that I am not 100 per cent arithmetically kaput, we celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Zanzibar Revolution.

>In-between celebrations to mark the 50th anniversary of the Zanzibar revolution, most Zanzibaris feel that, it was high time the government shifted the focus from the joy of toppling the feudal sultanate , to initiating an industrial revolution that would make the lives of the majority struggling to make ends meet, happier.

>An American diplomat, Mr Donald K. Petterson,  relives the events of the Zanzibar Revolution 51 years ago. Mr Petterson was the vice consul at the US Consulate between 1963 and 1964 and consul in 1965. He was later nominated by President Ronald Regan as the US ambassador to Tanzania in 1986. Excerpts.

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After a long drawn out political contest, Dr John Magufuli of CCM was yesterday declared the President-elect and will in due course be sworn in as Tanzania’s fifth president to succeed Jakaya Kikwete.

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>Tanzanians have just celebrated 50 years – Golden Jubilee -- of the Union of Tanganyika and Zanzibar. Formerly, the two entities were independent of each other. However, on April 26, 1964 they agreed to form what was known then as the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar.