Umma Party (Zanzibar)

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.

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 Arab socialism Republicanism Arab interests
Political position	Far-left
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