US foreign policy and revolution: the creation of Tanzania

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Title:	US foreign policy and revolution: the creation of Tanzania
Author:	Wilson, Amrit
Year:	1989
Pages:	179
Language:	English
City of publisher:	London
Publisher:	Pluto Press
ISBN:	1853050512
Geographic terms:	Zanzibar Tanzania United States
Subjects:	foreign policy foreign intervention federalism
Abstract:	In January 1964 the US State Department intervened to suppress the revolution in Zanzibar, which it saw as a potential threat to Western domination of east, central and southern Africa. By April the same year, it had engineered the creation of a new country - Tanzania - out of the union of Zanzibar and Tanganyika. The story of this intervention by the US is retold here in the words of the participants themselves: through telegrams, messages, memoranda and secret State documents that passed between CIA agents, ambassadors, and US officials, as they struggled to control events on the ground. These documents reveal the lengths to which the United States is prepared to go to protect its interests. They also demonstrate how leaders such as Nyerere and Kenyatta condoned, or even actively supported, the US intervention, and the way in which they were hoodwinked into believing that the US supported African nationalism and non-alignment.