Island Intel Zanzibar
This is a publication for curious travelers, residents, entrepreneurs, hospitality professionals and anyone who wants to see more than the postcard version of Zanzibar. And YES I use AI to write my substack.
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The Holes Are Punched With a Sea Urchin Spine
Friday morning in Stone Town. The lanes fill with men walking to Jumaa prayer in white the long robe, the kanzu, and on the head a small brimless cap, flat-topped, embroidered.
Most visitors photograph this and file it under local colour....
The Festival Moved for Eid
Zanzibar has two festivals that matter, and almost every visitor misses both because they come for the beach, in the months the beach is best, and the festivals are not in those months.
That is not an accident, and this issue is about why....
Two Things Are Not Happening on This Island Right Now
On 18 August 2026, the Tanzania Meteorological Authority issued its forecast for the October–December vuli season.
It was not a hedged document. TMA’s Director General, Dr Ladislaus Chang’a, said the season “is expected to be substantially...
Ice-Ice... The Seaweed in Paje Lagoon Is Breaking Apart Before It's Ready
Walk out onto the Paje lagoon at low tide and you can see the lines, rows of seaweed pegged to the floor of the sea, tended by women who have been working this reef flat for decades.
What you cannot see from the road is that a growing shar...
Kaskazi and Kusi... The Two Winds That Built This Civilisation
Almost everything this newsletter has written about comes down, eventually, to one physical fact.
The Persians at Kizimkazi in 1107. The Omani capital moving from Muscat. The Indian merchants of Stone Town. The Gujarati Parsi family that p...
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