CONSERVATION
Protecting wildlife in Zanzibar
The island is home to a monkey found nowhere else on earth, and part of its habitat lies a few kilometres from the lodge.
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WILDLIFE
The animals of Zanzibar
An island cut off from the mainland thousands of years ago, with a limited but singular fauna — and one great absentee.
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HISTORY
The history of Zanzibar in a few episodes
A crossroads of the Indian Ocean, a sultanate from Oman, a fortune built on cloves and on slavery, and a war that lasted less than three quarters of an hour.
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SPICES
Zanzibar and its spices
The nickname is not a travel-agency invention: it comes from a time when the archipelago supplied most of the world's cloves.
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RECIPE
Pweza wa nazi: octopus in coconut milk
It is the dish found everywhere along the Swahili coast, and the one village women bring back from the reef flat at low tide.
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