Tag: African-Arab relations
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Revolution: from Zanzibar to Zufar to Eritrea
The young may not know Tanganyika or Zanzibar, but they know Tan-Zan-ia. Tanganyika was the mainland country, and Zanzibar was an island off the coast of East Africa. In April 1964, just after the Revolution and Genocide of Zanzibar, the two entities united to form Tanzania: a name formed by connecting the prefixes of the…