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=== Zanzibar Revolution (1964) === | === Zanzibar Revolution (1964) === | ||
The Sultanate of Zanzibar formally attained independence from Britain on December 10, 1963. A month later, on 12 January 1964, a revolution began which led to the overthrow of the sultan. It was described by one historian as a revolution which "replaced a conservative Arab-dominated regime with one that espoused the principles of African nationalism and radical socialism and that developed close ties with communist bloc countries."<ref>{{Citation|author=Ian Speller|year=2007|title=An African Cuba? Britain and the Zanzibar Revolution, 1964|pdf=https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/modules/hi277/programme/t1w7/hi277_week_7_zanzibar_speller_.pdf|publisher=Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History|doi=10.1080/03086530701337666}}</ref> | The Sultanate of Zanzibar formally attained independence from Britain on December 10, 1963. A month later, on 12 January 1964, a revolution began which led to the overthrow of the sultan. It was described by one historian as a revolution which "replaced a conservative Arab-dominated regime with one that espoused the principles of African nationalism and radical socialism and that developed close ties with communist bloc countries."<ref>{{Citation|author=Ian Speller|year=2007|title=An African Cuba? Britain and the Zanzibar Revolution, 1964|pdf=https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/modules/hi277/programme/t1w7/hi277_week_7_zanzibar_speller_.pdf|publisher=Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History|doi=10.1080/03086530701337666}}</ref> | ||