Umma Party (Zanzibar)

Umma Party
Umma Party
Leader	Abdulrahman Muhammad Babu
Founded	1963
Dissolved	8 March 1964
Split from	Zanzibar Nationalist Party
Merged into	Afro-Shirazi Party
Ideology	Zanzibari nationalism ; Marxist socialism ; Arab socialism ; Republicanism ; Arab interests
Political position	Far-left
	Politics of Tanzania ; Political parties ; Elections ;

Last updated May 16, 2025

The Umma Party was a socialist political party in Zanzibar. It was founded in 1963 by disaffected socialist Arabs from the ruling Zanzibar Nationalist Party.^[2] It was led by Abdulrahman Muhammad Babu and supported the Afro-Shirazi Party during the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution.^[3] Babu was made Minister of External Affairs following the revolution.^[3] The party merged into the Afro-Shirazi Party on 8 March 1964.

References

1 2 3 4 Kingston-Cox, Will (2022-12-13). "Was the revolt in Zanzibar of 1964 determined by race or ideology?". Kleio Historical Journal. (Self-published). Retrieved 2025-05-15.
↑ Bakari 2001 , p. 204
1 2 Speller 2007 , p. 7

Bibliography

Bakari, Mohammed Ali (2001), The Democratisation Process in Zanzibar, GIGA-Hamburg, ISBN 3-928049-71-2 .
Speller, Ian (2007), "An African Cuba? Britain and the Zanzibar Revolution, 1964." (PDF), Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 35 (2): 1–35, doi:10.1080/03086530701337666, S2CID 159656717 .

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[Journal-1] 1 2 3 4 Kingston-Cox, Will (2022-12-13). "Was the revolt in Zanzibar of 1964 determined by race or ideology?". Kleio Historical Journal. (Self-published). Retrieved 2025-05-15.

[bakari204-2] Bakari 2001 , p. 204

[speller7-3] 1 2 Speller 2007 , p. 7

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