Word: muhsin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year Britain agreed that six of the twelve "unofficial" members of the Sultanate's 25-man legislative council should be elected by popular vote from an election roll open to all, regardless of race. The newly formed, Arab-led Nationalist Party was delighted, and its leader, Sheikh Ali Muhsin Barwani, 38, a well-educated Zanzibar Arab, boldly filed for office not in a "safe" constituency of Arabs but for Ngambo (literally, the Other Side), the heavily African poor section of Zanzibar city. He counted on the fact that two-thirds of his party's membership is African...