September 1914. As the First World War unfolded, a little-known but pivotal encounter transpired in the Indian Ocean—The Battle of Zanzibar. Here, the German Kaiserliche Marine clashed with the ...
2002-06-09 04:00:00 PDT Stone Town, Zanzibar-- In Stone Town - the oldest part of Zanzibar City - the hanging balconies, minarets, brass-studded doors and labyrinthine alleyways might have wafted from ...
Reviewed by Jonathon Glassman in African studies review (New Brunswick, NJ) 46 (2) September 2003, pages 122-123. (DT1.A1 A26 AFA). AFA copy 39088009928979 has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution ...
When President of Zanzibar and Chairman of the Revolutionary Council, Dr Hussein Ali Mwinyi, assumed office in November 2020, ...
As Zanzibar pops into sight out of the expansive Indian Ocean waters, a visitor bored by the monotony that is the drone and chugging of a marine engine envisions a rich date with history. An initial ...
Stone Town. Few visitors strolling through the winding alleys of Zanzibar’s Stone Town today would guess that the island was once home to East and Central Africa’s first steam railway.Long before ...