Omani-derived Indian Ocean sultanate of cloves and slaves, ended by the 1964 revolution.
Overthrown on 12 January 1964 in the Zanzibar Revolution: the Afro-Shirazi Party under John Okello seized power, deposed Sultan Jamshid bin Abdullah, and proclaimed the People's Republic of Zanzibar; Abeid Karume became president, and in April 1964 Zanzibar merged with Tanganyika to form Tanzania.
Sheriff's economic history of the Zanzibar clove-and-slave sultanate.
On the Indian Ocean slave economy linking Oman, Zanzibar and the Gulf.
Booker-shortlisted novel by the Nobel laureate, following a caravan journey from the Swahili coast into the interior around 1900, when Zanzibar was the seat of the Sultanate; much of the action ranges beyond Zanzibar itself into the German-controlled hinterland, so graded medium.