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Photo Captions
2.1 A view of modern Gaam (Dar es Salaam).
2.2 Uhuru Street.
3.1 Arya Samaj building, Gaam.
5.1 A postcard from German colonial Tanga.
5.2 Tanga street.
5.3 Cello, at the old Kaiserhof.
7.1 Kilwa Kivinje harbour at low tide.
7.2 Kilwa Kivinje street.
7.3
8.1 Old European map of Kilwa, dated 1572.
8.2 Kilwa Kisiwani (Island) ruins.
11.1 odoma Railway Station.
11.2 “Livingstone,” Tabora (where David Livingstone and H.M. Stanley stayed, Feb.–March 1872).
11.3 Mwanza street market.
13.1 Kigoma Railway Station.
13.2 Ujiji, the long road (beginning of the eastward slave route).
14.1 Ruins at Mikindani.
15.1 At the Moravian Mission, Tukuyu.
18.1 View of Zanzibar from the sea.
20.1 Former Aga Khan School, Zanzibar.
20.2 Taarab group, Zanzibar.
22.2 Gaam, Dar es Salaam.
Sources and Credits
The epigraph at the front of this book is from Cahier d’un retour au pays natal by Aimé Césaire, translated by Emile Snyder (Paris: Éditions Présence Africaine, 1971, pp. 60-61).
The poem excerpt on this page is from “The City,” by C.P. Cavafy, translated by Lawrence Durrell, in Justine (New York: Pocket Books, 1961. p. 227).
The map of Kilwa on this page is by map-makers Georg Braun & Franz Hogenberg. http://www.raremaps.com/gallery/detail/17056/Aden_Arabiae_Foelicis_Emporium_Celeberrimi_Nominis_quo_ex_India_Aethiopia/Braun-Hogenberg.html
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Acknowledgements
I MUST THANK ALL THOSE WHO over the years during my travels have provided much help, friendship, hospitality, companionship, and those moments of inspiration that have infused not only this book but also others. They are:
(Tanzania)
Fatma Alloo, Mkuki Bgoya, Walter Bgoya, Harko Bhagat, Mehboob Champsi, Ramesh Chauhan, Shabir Jaffer, Feroz Jafferji, Colonel Ameen Kashmiri, Nawroz Lakhani, Yasmin Lakhani, Ali Mawji, Karim Mitha, Sadru Mitha, Omar Mohammed, Beatrix Mugishagwe, Mpeli Nsekela, Charles Nsekela, Azim Premji, Issa Shivji, Natasha Shivji, Parin Shivji, Abdul Sherriff, Abdu Simba, Muzu Sulemanji, Mohamed Sumar, “Taju,” Nadir Tharani. Also, TPH Bookstore and Novel Idea.
(Kenya)
David Angell, High Commissioner of Canada, Muthoni Garland, Alex Kandie, Neera Kapila, Begum Karim, Pyarali Karim, Aleya Kassam, Dawn Makena, JKS Makokha, Zarina Patel, Zahid Rajen, Jayant Ruparel, Sultan Somji, Radha Upadhyay.
(Canada)
Iqbal Dewji, Zahir Dhalla, Hassan Jaffer, Moe Jiwan, Karim Ladak.
(Elsewhere)
K.L. Jhaveri, Urmila Jhaveri, Abdulaziz Lodhi, Veena Sharma, Farouk Topan.
For their encouragement and making this book possible in various ways, Bruce Westwood, Lien de Nis, Kristin Cochran, Lynn Henry, Tracy Bohan, and Jacqueline Ko. And, of course, for this and much more, Nurjehan.