Visitors can wander through maze-like streets, where shops, markets, and traditional houses sit alongside huge palaces.

THE sun-soaked archipelago of Zanzibar off the coast of East Africa should be your next holiday destination if you want a bargain holiday. Not only has TUI recently opened a number of new hotels, ...

Gurnah’s own history is filled with complex, grey areas, having grown up in the cosmopolitan and multi-ethnic Sultanate of Zanzibar, at the time a British protectorate. His mother tongue is Swahili, ...

These include the House of Wonders, the former ceremonial residence of Sultan Barghash, and the Majestic, Zanzibar's last cinema, which is to become a cultural and community reference center for the ...

Listen to a BBC dramatisation of Sultan Seyyid Said's daughter, Princess Salme, talking about her life in Zanzibar There were three main reasons why more slaves were required: 1. The clove ...

Listen to a BBC dramatisation of Sultan Seyyid Said's daughter, Princess Salme, talking about her life in Zanzibar There were three main reasons why more slaves were required: 1. The clove ...

She also commended Zanzibar’s recent initiatives for their vital role in ... She further emphasised that, under the guidance of His Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan Bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Supreme Council ...

The writer on Primo Levi and his grandchildren’s art. By New Statesman The British writer Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 in the former Sultanate of Zanzibar, present-day Tanzania, and moved to the ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. Mombasa, Kenya: In 1993, a mysterious old coin was found in Likoni, Mombasa, near the ...