Word: zanzibar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point: Stand on Zanzibar may be part of the sci-fi world's response to Dune. It seems like a normal "conjures-up-a-chilling-future" novel. But it is a little bit more...
...nothing is resolved: no governments fall, no aliens invade, no decisions are reached. The universe is insane, and good sci-fi-like Dune and Stand on Zanzibar -is beginning to cope with this. You see . . . you see? It's so very lonely, you're 2,000 lightyears from home...
Married. Abeid Karume, 64, fire-breathing mandarin of the Revolutionary Council of Zanzibar and First Vice President of Tanzania; and Sadya Abdalla-He, 14, a comely eighth-grade student; he for the fourth time; in a Moslem ceremony; in Zanzibar...
...subjects. Some Asians, particularly the Ishmaeli community, put their hopes in an integrated society and applied for Kenyan citizenship. But the majority of Asians, roughly 100,000 out of about 160,000, took the British option. With vivid memories of the slaughter of Arabs on the nearby island of Zanzibar in 1962, they feared future instances of African racism and xenophobia. Also, it was clear that the sluggish economy could not create enough jobs for both Black and Brown. Asians planned to stay in Kenya as long as their jobs or business lasted, for they knew that British citizenship offered...
...flown a long way from the wing-and-a-prayer operation that the British organized in 1946 to open up what was then known as British East Africa. Starting with six buzzing, roaring De Havilland biplanes, E.A.A. pilots crisscrossed the area's four territories-Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika and Zanzibar (merged into Tanzania in 1964)-bringing air service to such remote spots as Lake Victoria and Kilimanjaro. When it ventured overseas in 1957 with DC-4 flights to London and Bombay, E.A.A. happily discovered that traffic in English civil servants and schoolboys could make up the losses on domestic flights...