Social memory silenced voices and political struggle : remembering the revolution in Zanzibar Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Contents; Figures and Illustrations; Acronyms; Acknowledgments; Authors; Chapter One Memory Media and Mapinduzi: Alternative Voices and Visions of Revolution Fifty Years Later; Opening Ceremonies: Official Events and Popular (Dis)Engagement; Reverberations of Revolution: Things That Go without Saying Things That Cannot Be Said; Engaging the Past: Remembrance and Representation; Official Stories: Constructing the Public Face of the Revolution; Controlling Affects Disciplining Bodies and Reordering Space; Dissonant and Alternative Voices. Searching for the Truth : Epistemic Murk and Historical QuestAdjudicating the Dead of the Revolution; Interwoven Temporalities: The Revolution and the Legacy of Slavery; Coda: Revolution Forever! (Mapinduzi Daima!) or a Revolution Not Even Past; References; Chapter Two Memories of Revolution: Patterns of Interpretation of the 1964 Revolution in Zanzibar; The Revolution: Establishing a Framework of Events and Processes; The Intricacies of Interpretation; Patterns of Interpretation; The Civil War Argument; By Way of Conclusion: Memories of Revolution; References. Chapter Three The Voice of the Revolution: Remembering and Re Envisioning Field Marshal John OkelloThe Voice; Confusion about Okellos Identity; Biography Take One: Sources Close to Okello; Biography Take Two: Archival Sources; Biography Take Three: East African Newspapers in the Aftermath of the Revolution; Biography Take Four: Views from Back Home in Uganda; Okello in the Media Then and Now; Okello in Academic Accounts and Party Histories; Conclusion; References; Chapter Four Memory Liberalism and the Reconstructed Self: Wolfango Dourado and the Revolution in Zanzibar; Background. Memory Liberalism and the Reconstructed SelfColonialism; Nationalism; Revolution; Karume the Terrible; Jumbe the Disagreeable; Conclusion; References; Chapter Five For Us Its What Came After : Locating Pemba in Revolutionary Zanzibar; Pemba in Zanzibar Named Not Named T here Not There; When Pembas There: Geographic Terms; Pemban Social Organization; The Time of Satiety Before : Pemba in the 1950s; It Didnt Happen Here: 1961 1964; Latecomers to Revolution: You Didnt Wield the Panga ; Stories from Clove Lands; The Entire Place a Prison: Days of Caning ; Revolution as Theater. The Curtailing of Intellectual Life: Foreign and Traditional KnowledgeThe Pemba Famine: Njaa Established in the Land; On Elections: Where Do Pembans Belong; Revolution for All; References; Chapter Six Uncommon Misery Relegated to the Margins: Tumbatu and Fifty Years of the Zanzibar Revolution; Situating Tumbatu and Jongowe; Historical Memories and Colonial Misrepresentation; Zanzibars Revolutionary Era; Outcomes of the Revolutionary Era in Jongowe; Conclusion; References; Chapter Seven Glittering Skin : Race Rectitude and Wrongdoing in Zanzibar. Memory media and mapinduzi : alternative voices and visions of revolution fifty years later William Cunningham Bissell and Marie Aude Fouéré Memories of revolution : patterns of interpretation of the 1964 revolution in Zanzibar Roman Loimeier The voice of the revolution : remembering and re envisioning Field Marshal John Okello Ann Lee Grimstad Memory liberalism and the reconstructed self : Wolfango Dourado and the revolution in Zanzibar G. Thomas Burgess For us its what came after : locating Pemba in revolutionary Zanzibar Nathalie Arnold Koenings Uncommon misery relegated to the margins : Tumbatu and fifty years of the Zanzibar revolution Makame Ali Muhajir and Garth Andrew Myers Glittering skin : race rectitude and wrongdoing in Zanzibar Gavin Macarthur Silenced voices recaptured memories : historical imprints within a Zanzibari life world Kjersti Larsen Memory history and the nation among the grieving cosmopolitans : Omani Zanzibaris remember the Zanzibar revolution 1964 present Nathaniel Mathews Africa Addio the revolution and the ambiguities of remembrance in contemporary Zanzibar Marie Aude Fouéré Healing the past reinventing the present : from the revolution to maridhiano Ahmed Rajab Capturing the commemoration : a documentary photo essay on the 50th anniversary of the revolution Ania Gruca. This volume focuses on the cultural memory and mediation of the 1964 Zanzibar revolution analyzing its continuing reverberations in everyday life. The revolution constructed new conceptions of community and identity race and cultural belonging as well as instituting different ideals of nationhood citizenship sovereignty. As the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the revolution revealed the official versions of events have shifted significantly over time and the legacy of the uprising is still deeply contested. In these debates the question of Zanzibari identity remains very much at stake: Who exactly belongs in the islands and what historical processes brought them there What are the boundaries of the nation and who can claim to be an essential part of this imagined and embodied community Political belonging and power are closely intertwined with these issues of identity and history raising intense debates and divisions over precisely where Zanzibar should be situated within the national order of things in a postcolonial and interconnected world. Attending to narratives that have been overlooked ignored or relegated to the margins the authors of these essays do not seek to simply define the revolution or to establish its ultimate meaning. Instead they seek to explore the continuing echoes and traces of the revolution fifty years on reflected in diverse memories media and monuments. Inspired by interdisciplinary perspectives from anthropology history cultural studies and geography these essays foreground critical debates about the revolution often conducted sotto voce and located well off the official stage attending to long silenced questions submerged doubts rumors and secrets or things that cannot be said.