{"product_id":"zanzibar-was-a-country-exile-and-citizenship-between-east-africa-and-the-gulf-volume-32-hardcover","title":"Zanzibar Was a Country: Exile and Citizenship Between East Africa and the Gulf Volume 32 - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eNathaniel Mathews\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eZanzibar Was a Country\u003c\/i\u003e traces the history of a Swahili-speaking Arab diaspora from East Africa to Oman. In Oman today, whole communities in Muscat speak Swahili, have recent East African roots, and practice forms of sociality associated with the urban culture of the Swahili coast. These \"Omani Zanzibaris\" offer the most significant contemporary example in the Gulf, as well as in the wider Indian Ocean region, of an Afro-Arab community that maintains a living connection to Africa in a diasporic setting. While they come from all over East Africa, a large number are postrevolution exiles and emigrés from Zanzibar. Their stories provide a framework for the broader transregional entanglements of decolonization in Africa and the Arabian Gulf. Using both vernacular historiography and life histories of men and women from the community, Nathaniel Mathews argues that the traumatic memories of the Zanzibar Revolution of 1964 are important to nation-building on both sides of the Indian Ocean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eNathaniel Mathews is able to tell a different kind of history--one that centers the narratives by these communities, and by their own political thinking. Rather than reading the history of this diaspora from the outside in (which would be tempting to do, given the kind of material we normally use), he is able to tell it from the inside out: as an emic history of diasporic political consciousness in the postcolonial moment.--Fahad Ahmad Bishara, author of \u003ci\u003eA Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eZanzibar Was a Country \u003c\/i\u003edraws on extensive archival and oral historical research to trace the ethnic sorting and diasporic politics of Arab exiles from Zanzibar. It is a major contribution to scholarship on the messy processes of decolonization, citizenship, and nation-building in Africa and the Middle East.\"--Mandana Limbert, author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Time of Oil: Piety, Memory, and Social Life in an Omani Town\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNathaniel Mathews \u003c\/b\u003eis a historian of East Africa and the Indian Ocean. He received his PhD from Northwestern University and is currently Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at SUNY Binghamton.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 358\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.1 x 9.1 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 09, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45986158674117,"sku":"9780520394520","price":184.84,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/6kZFpgbRTo9780520394520.webp?v=1774029197","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/zanzibar-was-a-country-exile-and-citizenship-between-east-africa-and-the-gulf-volume-32-hardcover","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}