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Trivia #1: Freddie Mercury was the first ever rockstar with African-Asian Roots

Trivia #2: The Anglo-Zanzibar war was the shortest recorded war in history

Freddie Mercury: Parsi or British?

Both. His ethnicity is of Persian and Indian roots and Freddie Mercury’s parents were Parsis, Freddie was
considered a British Citizen.

 Zanzibar is a British Protectorate. Hence, he is considered a British Subject which means

he is a member of a class of British nationality largely granted under limited
circumstances to people connected with Ireland or British India born before 1949.
 Parsi is another ethnic group in South Asia that are part of the Zoroastrian religion from
Persia (modern day Iran) but started to migrate to India because of persecution they faced
during the Muslim conquest of Iran.

How did Zanzibar become a British Protectorate?

The British Empire gradually took over the territory; the relationship was formalized by the
1890 Heligoland-Zanzibar Treaty,
 This treaty made Zanzibar and Pemba a British protectorate (not colony), and the Caprivi
Strip (in what is now Namibia) part of German South West Africa. British rule through a
sultan (vizier) remained largely unchanged.
 Furthermore, the British rule was made more evident because of the end of Anglo-Zanzibar
War wherein the new appointed Sultan Hamoud’s interests coincide with the British
Government. He was declared the new ruler and peace was restored once more.
Among any other countries to migrate to, why the United Kingdom?
Since their country was considered a British Protectorate, they legally acquired British passports to flee
from Zanzibar and moved to Feltham, Middle Sex.