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Informationen zum Autor Amrit Wilson was Senior Lecturer in Women's Studies/South Asian Studies at Luton University. She set up the first Asian women's refuge in London and works with 'Asian Women Unite'. She is author of Finding A Voice (Virago, 1978), which won the Martin Luther King award, and has written about black experiences in Britain, the politics of South Asia and gender issues. She is the author of Dreams, Questions, Struggles (Pluto, 2006) and The Threat of Liberation (Pluto, 2013). Klappentext 'Baghdad Bulletin takes us where mainstream news accounts do not go. Disrupting the easy cliches that dominate US journalism, Enders blows away the media fog of war.' Norman Soloman Amrit Wilson has tapped a wide range of sources to tell a story of Zanzibar in modern times. As interesting as the narrative she puts together is the vantage point from which she tells it. This book deserves a wide audience. -- Mahmood Mamdani, Herbert Lehman Professor of Government and Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University Amrit Wilson offers an insightful and compelling analysis of the concrete struggle against neo-colonialism as it has played out, over the last several decades, in Zanzibar and what is now Tanzania. Getting beyond the headlines and the official histories, and with access to material previously unavailable, Wilson introduces the reader to a 1960s movement that could have brought about the revolutionary transformation of Zanzibar, and quite possibly other parts of East Africa, had it not been hijacked. There were moments when Wilson's compelling narrative had the feel of gripping novel! -- Bill Fletcher, Jr., co-editor of Claim No Easy Victories: The Legacy of Amilcar Cabral Zusammenfassung A gripping historical account of Cold War subversion and revolution in post-colonial Africa! with crucial lessons for today. Introduction 1. Anti-Colonial Struggles - the Early Days 2. The British Transfer Power to the Sultan and his Allies 3. The Zanzibar Revolution and Imperialist Fears 4. The Union with Tanganyika 5. Karume's Despotic Rule 6. Trial in Zanzibar's Kangaroo Court 7. Zanzibar in the Neoliberal Era 8. Diplomats, Aid and US military Interventions References Appendix 1: Political Programme of the Umma Party Appendix 2: Charge sheet for the Umma defendants References Index ...
