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 ...

Zanzibar, a former colony of Great Britain, is an island off the coast of Tanzania, located in East Africa. Under British rule the population of Zanzibar was divided between small but influential ...

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 ...

The story of the Anglo-Zanzibar war, which holds the record for the shortest conflict in history. Scientists Tested the ...

Off the coast of East Africa in the middle of the Indian Ocean’s endless blues lies the paradise of Zanzibar. This semi-autonomous region of Tanzania is infused with a unique heritage full of ...

Siam Society is holding a study trip to Oman and Zanzibar, two regions once united by empire and trade and still connected by ...

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 ...

A war fought between the Great Britain and the Zanzibar Sultanate on 27 August 1896, which lasted between 38 and 45 minutes, ...