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John Okello
John Okello was a Ugandan-born labourer and revolutionary who led the armed rising of 12 January 1964 that overthrew the Sultan of Zanzibar. For a short time he styled himself field marshal and broadcast threats over the radio, but he was soon sidelined by the Afro-Shirazi Party leaders and expelled from Zanzibar. He disappeared in about 1971.
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