John Okello and the Zanzibar revolution: A bricklayer’s brief reign and the complexities of liberation
[The Standard - The Gambia] - 17/07/2025
By Dr Lamin K Janneh In January 1964, the world witnessed an astonishing episode in the annals of African liberation: a 26-year-old Ugandan-born bricklayer named John Okello led a revolutionary uprising in Zanzibar that toppled the 266-year-old Arab Sultanate in a matter of hours. His rise and (…)
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