Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu

Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu
Babu in 1966
Born(1924-09-22)22 September 1924
Sultanate of Zanzibar
Died5 August 1996(1996-08-05) (aged 71)
London, England
OccupationsPan-Africanist nationalist and politician
Notable workSocialist Africa or African Socialism (1981)

Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu (22 September 1924 – 5 August 1996) was a Zanzibar-born Marxist and pan-Africanist nationalist who played an important role in the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution and served as a minister under Julius Nyerere after the island was merged with mainland Tanganyika to form Tanzania. He was jailed by Nyerere from 1972 and, after his release following an international campaign, remained a vocal critic of imperialism, authoritarian states and excessively statist (as well as private capitalist) development models.

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