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Zanzibar

20 images Created 15 Feb 2013

The "Spice Island" of Zanzibar, still quite poor after a period of war and rebellion, is trying to revive its spice farms. Buildings in Stonetown and elsewhere are remnants of the slave trade from East Africa. Hand carved wooden doors in traditional maritime style are both restored and replicated as they have become fashionable.

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  • Crowd of fishermen heading homeward in their motorboat.  Evening on the Indian Ocean with a  towering white cloud lighting their way.
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  • Three women walking by a Stonetown mosque, its walls covered with quotations and moral precepts.
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  • stonetown street, young girl in a yellow dress reading placards on a news stand.
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  • Stonetown door of wood studded with large brass nail heads.
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  • Stonetown Anglican Cathedral of Christ, built 1873-83, with adjoining memorial to the slaves.  The church was built on the site of the Stonetown slave market.
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  • Stonetown carved wooden door in traditional style.
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  • Ruins of Maruhubi Palace, built by Sultan Barghash in 1882. H ruled from 1870-1888. A reflecting pool shows some of the ruins.
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  • Ruins of Mtoni Palace, built by Sultan Seyyid Said in 1828 to get  his Persian wife to move to Zanzibar.  It is the oldest palace on Zanzibar, in a beautiful location by the Indian Ocean.
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  • Ruins of Mtoni Palace, built by Sultan Seyyid Said to get  his Persian wife to move to Zanzibar.  Detail of attempted repair of its mud brick walls with modern concrete, which ruins the surface.
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  • Ruins of Mtoni Palace, built by Sultan Seyyid Said to get  his Persian wife to move to Zanzibar.  View of main entrance from the outside.
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  • Five Zanzibari children line up uncomfortably for their photograph.
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  • Ruins of Maruhubi Palace, built by Sultan Barghash in 1882 to accommodate his large harem.  It burned down in 1899.
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  • Young man climbs a palm tree in Zanzibar, waving joyously.
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  • Hidden underground coral rock structure used to hide slaves in daytime during their transport from Africa to Arabia & elsewhere.
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  • Stonetown wooden door with finely hand carved jambs and architrave and central pillar.  Doors themselves are plain, however.
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  • Stonetown wooden door studded with large headed brass nails.  Jams and architrave are delicately carved with ornamental themes.
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  • Jack fruit tree in Zanzibar bulging with fruits all along its trunk.
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  • Stonetown, man wearing white disdasha strides past a traditionally carved wooden door
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  • Entrance to a simple, poor, mosque in rural Zanzibar, with polite sign request: Please only enter for prayers. Thank you.
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