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
LeaderAbdulrahman Muhammad Babu
Founded1963
Dissolved8 March 1964
Split fromZanzibar Nationalist Party
Merged intoAfro-Shirazi Party
IdeologyZanzibari nationalism
Marxism
Arab socialism
Republicanism
Arab interests
Political positionFar-left

References

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  1. ^ Bakari 2001, p. 204
  2. ^ a b Speller 2007, p. 7

Bibliography

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  • 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.