Ali Sultan Issa: A Revolutionary Icon
The fact that the revolutionary’s death was totally ignored by Zanzibar’s official media speaks volumes on the government’s much-vaunted “national reconciliation.”
comrade Ali Sultan Issa Al-Ismaily, who passed away on January 3, 2022, three months shy of his 90th birthday, was iconic, if controversial, figure in Zanzibari politics. The fact that his death was totally ignored by Zanzibar’s official media speaks volumes on the government’s much-vaunted “national reconciliation.”
He may have been an occasional critic of the government but if anything, Ali Sultan was as fierce in his lifelong commitment for the emancipation of Zanzibar’s poor and the oppressed as he was gentle with those he loved.
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