Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter One - RACE, CLASS AND POLITICS ON THE EVE OF THE REVOLUTION -- ZAMA ZA SIASA -- GLIMPSES OF STATE AND CLASS FORMATION -- Historical antecedents -- The state and the ruling class -- The ethnic cleavage -- Classes -- The regional cleavage -- THE RISE OF NATIONALISMS -- The argument -- A decade of party politics -- SUMMING UP -- Class struggles and ethnic ideologies -- The limits of nationalisms -- Chapter Two - THE REVOLUTION -- THE INSURRECTION -- On the eve of the insurrection -- The government camp -- The 'rebel' camp -- The international camp -- THE 100-DAY REVOLUTION -- THE CHARACTER OF THE REVOLUTION -- Babu: a social(ist) revolution? -- Nyerere: a nationalist revolution? -- WHAT WAS 'ZANZIBAR REVOLUTION'? -- Chapter Three - THE UNION -- THE CONTEXT: EAST AFRICAN UNITY -- THE PUSH: IMPERIALIST PRESSURES -- THE RESULT: A PRAGMATIC UNION -- Signing of the Articles of Union -- Ratification of the Articles of Union -- THE INTERIM FRAMEWORK OF THE UNION -- SUMMING UP: THE UNION'S SHAKY FOUNDATIONS -- Chapter Four - NYERERE'S INTERIM CONSTITUTION AND KARUME'S EXTRA-CONSTITUTIONALITY -- THE AFTERMATH OF THE UNION -- THE RISE OF AN AUTOCRAT -- The party-state -- The dismantling of the judiciary -- Eliminating opponents -- Economic populism -- THE STATE OF THE UNION -- The assassination of Karume -- The second interim constitution -- FINANCIAL AUTONOMY AND CONTROL -- Zanzibar, Tanzania and the currency board -- Bank of Tanzania and the People's Bank of Zanzibar -- Chapter Five - NYERERE'S VISION AND JUMBE'S CONSOLIDATION: THE BIRTH OF A PERMANENT CONSTITUTION (1972-1977) -- JUMBE CONSOLIDATES POWER -- Reforming the ASP structure -- Jumbe's 'educated elite' -- Judicial reforms -- THE MERGER OF THE PARTIES.

THE MAKING OF THE PERMANENT UNION CONSTITUTION -- MAIN FEATURES OF THE 1977 CONSTITUTION -- The nomenclature -- Single Party Supremacy -- The Union parliament -- The Government of Zanzibar -- The Special Constitutional Court -- CONCLUSION -- Chapter Six - CONSTITUTIONAL OPENING AND CLOSURE: JUMBE'S DOWNFALL (1979-1985 -- CONSTITUTIONAL FOUNDATION -- RESTRUCTURING THE GOVERNMENT -- Revolutionary committees -- The Judiciary -- The 'military' -- THE 1979 ZANZIBAR CONSTITUTION -- The Making of the Constitution -- THE DOWNFALL OF ABOUD JUMBE -- The crisis years (1981-1985) -- The crisis of the Union (1983-1984) -- Zanzibar's case for three governments -- Jumbe on 'trial' -- THE 1984 CONSTITUTION -- The aftermath of 'pollution' -- Salient features of the 1984 Constitution -- CONCLUSION: A PRE-VIEW OF THE NEXT 20 YEARS -- Conclusion - LESSONS FOR PAN-AFRICANISM -- THE PAN-AFRICAN PROJECT -- IMPERIALISM AND THE FORMATION OF THE UNION -- CONTRADICTIONS OF NATIONALISMS -- CONSTITUTIONALISM AND DEMOCRACY -- Appendix 1 - Legislative Powers Law -- APPENDIX 2 (i) - Constitutional Law Decree No. 5 -- APPENDIX 2 (ii) - Decree indefinitely postponing Constituent Assembly -- Appendix 3 - Articles of Union -- Appendix 4 - Ratification Law passed by Tanganyika Parliament -- Appendix 5 - Ratification Law purportedly passed by Zanzibar Legislature -- Appendix 6 - Union law postponing the summoning of the Constituent Assembly -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.