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Anne M. Chappel
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The 1964 Zanzibar Revolution - from my old scrapbook
The revolution in Zanzibar took place on 12 January 1964 and changed the country for ever. We were living there, I was 16 years old, and my father, Mervyn Smithyman OBE, was working for the newly independent country and its elected government as the Permanent Secretary to the Prime Minister, Mohd. Shamte.
My family collected the news clippings of the period, and we put them into a scrapbook.
It is
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"“….message to students is clear: study genocide, but don’t dare protest it. Write about genocide, but don’t dare question our complicity in it.”
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“The trouble was, Elizabeth thought, they did not tell the children of colonial families not to love these foreign lands, not to fall in love with their birthplaces. While parents dreamt of retiring in peace to another place called ‘home’, their children soaked up knowledge of the only world they knew: its different peoples, its spicy food, its birdsong, the way warm rain fell like a curtain through the palm trees. Their souls would be forever torn.”
― Zanzibar Uhuru: revolution, two women and the challenge of survival
― Zanzibar Uhuru: revolution, two women and the challenge of survival
“Her task seemed ridiculous, the result of a momentary weakness, of believing in the impossible, that stories have a trajectory where we find things out, resolve things to our satisfaction and come out the other side, wiser and happier”
― Zanzibar Uhuru: revolution, two women and the challenge of survival
― Zanzibar Uhuru: revolution, two women and the challenge of survival
“We cannot change the past, she thought. How we long to sometimes, trying to work out how horror might have been averted by a fluke of fortune, a kind intercession, wisdom not yet granted.”
― Zanzibar Uhuru: revolution, two women and the challenge of survival
― Zanzibar Uhuru: revolution, two women and the challenge of survival
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“If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn't do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world.”
― In a Strange Room
― In a Strange Room
“In his clearest moments he thinks he has lost the ability to love, people or places or things, most of all the person and place and thing that he is. Without love nothing has value, nothing can be made to matter very much.”
― In a Strange Room
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“The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos. Only with the greatest simplification, for the sake of convenience, can we say 'Africa'. In reality, except as a geographical appellation, Africa does not exist.”
― The Cobra's Heart
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“Her task seemed ridiculous, the result of a momentary weakness, of believing in the impossible, that stories have a trajectory where we find things out, resolve things to our satisfaction and come out the other side, wiser and happier”
― Zanzibar Uhuru: revolution, two women and the challenge of survival
― Zanzibar Uhuru: revolution, two women and the challenge of survival
“We cannot change the past, she thought. How we long to sometimes, trying to work out how horror might have been averted by a fluke of fortune, a kind intercession, wisdom not yet granted.”
― Zanzibar Uhuru: revolution, two women and the challenge of survival
― Zanzibar Uhuru: revolution, two women and the challenge of survival
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