Zanzinet Journal
Expand your knowledge of Zanzibar by reading interesting messages written by Zanzinet members or by listening to audio clips from official broadcast through Television Zanzibar or Sauti ya Tanzania Zanzibar.
"Free and Fair!"
"Free and Fair" is what some election observers want the world to believe that the 2005 General Election in Zanzibar was all but the will of people, despite documented evidence to the contrary.
Read two poems written on this subject by members of this forum ...
"Jumba Maro" - Book Review
"Jumba Maro" is a Swahili novel written by Mr. Ally Saleh, a well known journalist and member of the Zanzinet Forum.
Paradise Lost
Paradise lost is a poem written by Prof. Yusuf Kassam, formerly of the University of Dar es Salaam and currently living in Toronto, Canada. According Prof. Abdulaziz Lodhi of the Department of Linguistics & Philology, Uppsala University in Sweden, Yusuf Kassam was an outstanding student at the former King George VI Grammar School (Now: Lumumba Secondary School). He was among the first Zanzibaris/Tanzanians to have published poems in English.
A Transcript from Unguja
We welcome the year 2005 while remembering the horrible events of the past year marred by shameful acts of violence during the voters registration exercise into the Permanent Voters Register.
Message of the week
A well written message will be selected from either zanzinet mailing list or Open Forums and posted on this section. The Qualified message is the one which conforms with Zanzinet Mission Statement
Due to technical reasons we are unable to continue this column. You can however read previous messages by clicking on the link below.
Historical 1963 UN Speech
Prime Minister Muhammed Shamte Hamad (as Head of Government of the independent and Sovereign State of Zanzibar) delivered the following historic speech on the historic day of 16th December, 1963 to the General Assembly of the United Nations Organization in New York.
Tolerance: Principal Foundation of the Cosmopolitan Society of Zanzibar.
For a substantial number of people, notably in the northern hemisphere, the name Zanzibar sounds mythical and makes people dream. However, in reality, it has a physical existence and a particular place in the world map. It is an island country, which consists of Unguja and Pemba islands and a multitude of other islets (approximately fifty).