Back حزب الأمة (زنجبار) Arabic Κόμμα Ούμα Greek Umma Party French Умма (Занзибар) Russian Ummapartiet Swedish
Umma Party | |
|---|---|
| Leader | Abdulrahman Muhammad Babu |
| Founded | 1963 |
| Dissolved | 8 March 1964 |
| Split from | Zanzibar Nationalist Party |
| Merged into | Afro-Shirazi Party |
| Ideology | Zanzibari nationalism Marxism-Leninism Arab socialism Republicanism Arab interests |
| Political position | Far-left |
The Umma Party was a socialist political party in Zanzibar. It was founded in 1963 by disaffected socialist Arabs from the ruling Zanzibar Nationalist Party.[1] It was led by Abdulrahman Muhammad Babu and supported the Afro-Shirazi Party during the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution.[2] Babu was made Minister of External Affairs following the revolution.[2] The party merged into the Afro-Shirazi Party on 8 March 1964.
- ^ Bakari 2001, p. 204
- ^ a b Speller 2007, p. 7
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