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🇬🇧 Crying, Laughing, Dancing Pots highlights a smooth historical undertaking of Zanzibarisation, par excellence. It offers a comprehensive exploration of the Kumbhar community, a group that migrated from Kutch, India, to Zanzibar, approximately 300 years...

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Tag(s) : #Zanzibar, #English Books, #History, #Diaspora, #India, #Khumbars, #Ahmed Rajab, #Mohamed Ahmed Saleh, #Issak Esmail Issak

🇬🇧 Do you hear the notes plucked as the griot tunes his hoddu? When a Peul griot from Sénégal plays his hoddu he sings family histories, praise songs, traditional tales and epics. Within these songs there are questions of identity, and of how people conduct...

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Tag(s) : #Warren D.M. Reed, #Short stories, #Sénégal, #History, #Fiction

🇹🇿 Kwa lugha nyepesi ya Kiswahili fasaha, Kiunguja, Ibrahim Mohammed Hussein, anasimuliya kwa uwazi na ujasiri mkubwa, yale yaliyomsibu baada ya kuuwawa Rais wa Kwanza wa iliyokuwa Jamhuri ya Watu wa Zanzibar, na Mwenyekiti wa Kwanza wa Baraza la Mapinduzi,...

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Tag(s) : #Zanzibar, #Swahili Books, #History, #Ahmed Rajab, #Mohamed Ahmed Saleh, #Ibrahim Mohammed Hussein, #Human rights

🇬🇧 A Zanzibar architect’s unsung legacy The story of Ajit Singh Hoogan Architect, Artist, Philanthropist, followed by Sportsman and MP, The story of Parmukh Singh Hoogan Ajit Singh, a Zanzibar architect who also was a painter, a man of the arts, whose...

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Tag(s) : #English Books, #Zanzibar, #Issak Esmail Issak, #Architecture, #History

🇹🇿 Hashil Seif Hashil alizaliwa kwenye ngarawa katika maji ya bahari ya Pemba Januari 12, 1938. Alisoma skuli ya msingi ya Mkwajuni na baadaye katika iliyokuwa Seyyid Khalifa Secondary Technical School, Beit-el-Ras, Unguja. Alikuwa ni mmoja wa vijana...

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Tag(s) : #Swahili Books, #Hashil Seif Hashil, #Zanzibar, #History

Mathias E. Mnyampala (1917–1969) et la construction nationale tanzanienne (Volumes 1 & 2) About this Research This publication brings together the two volumes of a doctoral dissertation in African Studies, specializing in Swahili language and literature....

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Tag(s) : #French Books, #Mathieu Roy, #Mathias E. Mnyampala, #Christianity, #Religion, #History, #Poetry, #Swahili poetry, #Ushairi, #Swahili linguistics

🇫🇷 Le Cheikh Kaluta Amri Abedi (1924-1964) fut un chef religieux de la communauté islamique Ahmadiyya, un grand poète d’expression swahilie et un homme d’État du Tanganyika (actuelle Tanzanie). Cette biographie est l’œuvre de son fils, le Cheikh Bakri...

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Tag(s) : #Traduction Swahili - Français, #Cheikh Bakri Abedi, #French Books, #Mathieu Roy, #Religion, #Islam, #History