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3 unusual facts about Zanzibar


Abdul Sheriff

He has applied his knowledge in the restoration of the ceremonial palace of the sultan.

Sheriff was born on December 7, 1939, on the island of Zanzibar.

Abdul Sheriff is a Tanzanian emeritus history professor at the University of Dar es Salaam, and former director of the Peace Memorial Museum, the national museum of Zanzibar.


Aril Edvardsen

He died 6 September 2008, in Mombasa, Kenya, where he was vacationing with his wife after a missionary campaign in Zanzibar, Tanzania.

Arthur Vincent

Later Vincent was a judge with the Foreign Office, in Zanzibar, Bangkok and Shanghai.

Bondeni

Bondeni is a village on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, part of Zanzibar.

Bumbwini

Bumbwini is a village on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, part of Zanzibar.

Bwejuu

Bwejuu is a village on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, part of Zanzibar.

Chuini

Chuini is a village on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, part of Zanzibar.

Chukwani

Chukwani is a village on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, part of Zanzibar.

Chwaka

Chwaka is a town on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, part of Zanzibar.

Cirolana mercuryi

Cirolana mercuryi is a species of isopod found on coral reefs off Bawe Island, (Zanzibar, Tanzania) in East Africa and named for Freddie Mercury, "arguably Zanzibar's most famous popular musician and singer".

Cutchi-Swahili

It is the native language of some Gujarati families from Zanzibar that have settled in the larger cities of Tanganyika and Kenya, and is used as a second language by others of the Asian community.

Dimbani

Dimbani - officially Kizimkazi Dimbani - is a village on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, part of Zanzibar.

Flag of the Colony of Aden

A navy blue flag with the Union jack in the top left corner, it featured a badge like that of colonial Zanzibar, with a two-masted Arab dhow sailing on turquoise waters, designed by George Kruger-Gray of the Royal Mint.

Fukuchani

Fukuchani is a village on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, part of Zanzibar.

Fumba

Fumba is a village on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, part of Zanzibar.

Fuoni

Fuoni is a village on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, part of Zanzibar.

Jambiani

Jambiani is a village on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, part of Zanzibar.

Jetha Lila

In 1920 the Westminster Bank appointed Jetha Lila its agent to represent its interests in Zanzibar.

Jozan

Jozani Chwaka Bay National Park, a national park of Tanzania located on the island of Zanzibar

Kendwa

Kendwa is a village on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, part of Zanzibar.

Kibaoni

Kibaoni is a village on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, part of Zanzibar.

Kibweni

Kibweni is a village on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, part of Zanzibar.

Kilwa Sultanate

At the zenith of its power in the 15th century, the Kilwa Sultanate owned or claimed overlordship over the mainland cities of Malindi, Inhambane and Sofala and the island-states of Mombassa, Pemba, Zanzibar, Mafia, Comoro and Mozambique (plus numerous smaller places) - essentially what is now often referred to as the "Swahili Coast".

Kinyasini

Kinyasini is a village on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, part of Zanzibar.

Kitogani

Kitogani is a village on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, part of Zanzibar.

Koninklijke Paketvaart-Maatschappij

The line's routes, beyond the home islands, included services to the ports of Singapore and Hong Kong, Shanghai, Manila, Saigon; the Australian ports of Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide; African ports such as Durban, East London, Port Elizabeth, Mossel Bay, Cape Town, Zanzibar, Mombasa, and the Indian Ocean ports of Réunion and Mauritius and Mahé.

Lloyd Mathews

Following the death of a German logger who had been operating illegally, the Sultan of Zanzibar and the British government dispatched an expedition on 20 October 1890 to bring the Sultan of Witu to justice.

Lorenzo Savioli

In 1979 he moved to Zanzibar, Tanzania where he worked as a clinician and later as the public health officer responsible for controlling schistosomiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis on Pemba island.

Mahonda

Mahonda is a village on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, part of Zanzibar.

Mangapwani

Mangapwani is a town on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, the main island of Zanzibar.

Mbweni, Zanzibar

Mbweni is a town on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, the main island of Zanzibar.

Michenzani

A complex of "Plattenbauten" (apartment blocks constructed from large, prefabricated concrete slabs) was built in Michenzani as well as other areas of suburban and rural Zanzibar.

Mittelafrika

German strategic thinking was that if the region between the colonies of German East Africa (Rwanda, Burundi, and Tanzania minus the island of Zanzibar), German South-West Africa (Namibia minus Walvis Bay), and Cameroon could be annexed, a contiguous entity could be created covering the breadth of the African continent from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean.

Mombasa Air Services

Air Charter services throughout East Africa but mainly to Amboseli, Tsavo, Mara, Samburu, Lamu and Lake Nakuru in Kenya, and in Tanzania Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro and the Serengeti plus Zanzibar.

National Museum of Somalia

It was built at the request of the Sultan of Zanzibar, Barghash ibn Sa'id as a residence for the Governor of Mogadishu, Suleiman bin Hamed after he received permission from the Somali Sultan Ahmed Yusuf of the Geledi Sultanate.

Northern Cyprus national football team

This also featured teams from Greenland, Tibet, Gibraltar, Zanzibar, and a team representing "The Republic of St. Pauli", amateur players drawn from the St Pauli district of Hamburg.

Nungwi

Nungwi is a fishermen's village and a tourist attraction located at the northernmost tip of Unguja (Zanzibar), East Africa.

Nyamwezi people

Unyanyembe was perhaps the most powerful, since it controlled the trading city of Tabora, and had close connections with the Arabs of Zanzibar, through the Arab community of Tabora.

People's Bank of Zanzibar

Initially its service area was limited to the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba.

Pingwe

Pingwe is a village on the Tanzanian island of Unguja, part of Zanzibar.

Shilling

The East African shilling was in use in the British colonies and protectorates of British Somaliland, Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda and Zanzibar from 1920, when it replaced the rupee, until after those countries became independent, and in Tanzania after that country was formed by the merger of Tanganyika and Zanzibar in 1964.

Shimoni

Over time it has developed from a sleepy fishing village to become the main port of clearance for ocean going trade Dhows arriving from as far away as the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, the island of Zanzibar and Dar es Salaam.

SS Patna

It's a fact that at least two groups White Fathers (second and fourth caravan from Zanzibar) have travelled on the real SS Patna from Algiers to Aden on their way to Zanzibar, on the way to the later Heart of Darkness.

The Zanzibar

However, many notable acts have played at the Zanzibar such as Brendan Benson, The Coral, The Zutons, The Seal Cub Clubbing Club, James Walsh, Noel Gallagher, Hot Club de Paris, Shack, Candie Payne and Tom Vek.

Union Day

"Union Day" on April 26 in Tanzania, commemorating the unification of Zanzibar and Tanganyika in 1964

Uroa

Uroa is a small coastal village on central eastern Unguja (Zanzibar Island), in Tanzania.

Zanzibar Blue

The club closed on April 29, 2007, Robert Bynum stating "we didn't think it was in our best interests to renew the lease. We'd rather own our building than lease." WJJZ, Philadelphia's smooth jazz radio station broadcast Sunday brunches from Zanzibar Blue, and performers such as Lou Rawls, Chick Corea and Chuck Mangione have played there.


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