Wolfgang Dourado

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Wolfgang Dourado was a former attorney general, and later Chief Justice, of Zanzibar. [1] [2]

After the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution, Dourado chose to remain behind and support the Revolutionary Government as other Goans fled. [3] [4]

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References

  1. Haygood, Wil (15 May 1984), "Tanzania Freed Kin, Local Man Reports", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette , Block Communications, p. 18, retrieved 1 August 2010
  2. Mwakikagile, Godfrey (2006). Tanzania Under Mwalimu Nyerere: Reflections on an African Statesman. Godfrey Mwakikagile. p. 181. ISBN   0-9802534-9-7.
  3. Burgess, G. Thomas (2018), "Memory, Liberalism, and the Reconstructed Self: Wolfango Dourado and the Revolution in Zanzibar", W.C. Bissell & M-A. Fouéré (eds.), Social Memory, Silenced Voices, and Political Struggle: Remembering the Revolution in Zanzibar, Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, pp. 109–144
  4. Koenings, Nathalie Arnold (24 April 2018), ""For Us It's What Came After"", Social Memory, Silenced Voices, and Political Struggle, Mkuki na Nyota Publishers, pp. 145–190, doi:10.2307/j.ctvh8r429.11, ISBN   978-9987-08-346-6 , retrieved 26 May 2020