This essays uses the case of Zanzibar in its complicated relationship with the United Republic of Tanzania as a lens of debates in political geography on empirical and conceptual approaches to critical geopolitics. We test the veracity of a multi-faceted critical geopolitics in the contemporary public contestation on Zanzibar's place in the United Republic from 2008-2012. We analyze tanzanian media, the spech atcs of tanzanian leaders, ann the key events and processes related to what is termed the Zanzibar problem during the selected years, to make two pints avout a critical geopolitics approach: to strengthen critical geopolitics by broadening the analysis of language to engage political acts by broadening the analysis of language to engage political acts and languages beyond the global north, and taking subaltern geopolitics more seriously via engagement with critical geopolitical voices on discourses events and processes from the global south

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