A study of the impact of the dhow trade on the Zanzibari economy from slavery and colonial control to the rise of the oil states in the Persian Gulf. The author looks at how dhows hampered the Royal Navy's anti slave trade campaigns and the resilience of the dhow led economy with its ingenious evasions of government control and taxation. Illustrated with b/w photographs and maps. Index, bib, gloss, xiii, 176pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS, 0852554850

Essays, articles and speeches spanning almost forty years from the writer, revolutionary and politician who has been praised by thinkers of the calibre of Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Mahmood Mamdani and Samir Amin. Covers economic policies and development; pan-africanism; democracy and human rights; international relations and solidarity; national liberation in the era of neocolonialism; and Marxist theory. Notes, index, xxv, 350pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS, 086543834X

Essays on the culture, history and architecture of Stone Town looking in particular at efforts to conserve and preserve the crumbling structures describing the conflicting social and economic pressures. Well illustrated with b/w images and plans. Index, bib, notes, xiii, 151pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS, 0852557205

The memoirs of the daughter of the Sultan of Zanzibar who left for Europe at the turn of the century. Contains many insights on life in the second half of the nineteenth century including slavery, ivory trading, and women in a royal harem. It also examines the influence of western values in African cultures at that time. IN FRENCH. B/w illus, 210pp, ZANZIBAR. GALLERY.

Explores the first decades of the twentieth century from the perspective of the urban poor, highlighting the numerous and varied ways that recently freed slaves and immigrants to town struggled to improve their individual and collective lives and to create a sense of community in the new environment. 7 maps, 29 ill, bib, index, xvi, 370pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS, 0852557957

Now in paperback. A diplomat's eyewitness account of the bloody 1964 revolution in Zanzibar against the backdrop of Cold War intrigue. Index, notes, maps, b/w illus, xvii, 286pp, USA. WESTVIEW, 0813339499 HB, 0813342686

An historical survey of Zanzibar and its place in the local and world economy from 1770 1873, looking at the early stages of underdevelopment in East Africa. Index, sources, apps, notes, b/w illus, diags, tables, maps, gloss, xx, 297pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

An insider's account of political conflict as Zanzibar achieved independence. In late 1958 the political atmosphere in Zanzibar was heating up and racial tension was soaring dangerously as the Afro Shirazi Party (ASP) began to claim that Zanzibar was only for the black people and all other races were aliens. The Zanzibar Nationalist Party (ZNP) was demanding independence by 1960, and the ASP opposing it in fear of alleged Arab domination. The author became a government minister and was in prison for over ten years. 178pp, 20 illus, ZANZIBAR. GALLERY PUBLICATIONS, 9987667031

A new edition of Dr. Brode's highly readable biography which was first published in 1903. Tippu Tip is widely remembered as a slave trader, though he was also an ivory trader, the Sultan of Utetera and a regional governor in the early days of Belgian rule in the Congo. Brode describes his relationships with the explorers Livingstone, Cameron, Stanley and Wissmann and his role in the international expedition to rescue Emin Pasha. There are detailed accounts of Tippu Tip's dealings with Stanley and their disagreements. Translated from Arabic by H. Havelock and includes a preface by Charles Elliot. B/w illus, viii, 132pp, ZANZIBAR. GALLERY.

2000 1993 9987887767 Hardback

Statistical and background information relating to Zanzibar. Illus, Bib, 128pp, ZANZIBAR. GOOD LUCK PUBLISHERS.

The main focus is on the history of the nineteenth century and how the Omani Arab rulers consolidated their power. We read of the first arrival of the British, of in-trigues over the succession in the ruling house, and of the struggle against the slave trade. There is a poignant description of a slave auction in Stone Town about a year before the final closure of the market in 1873. Apart from the colouration of European racial attitudes towards Arabs, Indians and natives of a century ago, much of the writing is sensitive and acutely observant of the lifestyles, habits and attitudes of Zanzibaris and foreign residents in the early twentieth century. Reprint (first edition 1905), 268pp, 15 illus, ZANZIBAR. GALLERY PUBLICATIONS [ZANZIBAR], 9987667082

Reprint of a classic text on Zanzibar makes available again the remarkably comprehensive account of the Island of Cloves first published in 1931. An historical ethnography of Zanzibar, it describes local legends, and their important social function in recording and constituting the oral history of the island. Ingrams’ extensive observations and personal experiences, both on the main island of Unguja and Pemba and the smaller islands which make up Zanzibar, provide a detailed and lively account of society at the time. Index, bib, 526p, UK. STACEY INTERNATIONAL.

Illus, 69pp, ZANZIBAR. GOOD LUCK PUBLISHERS.

2004 9987893181 Paperback

Essays on changes in Zanzibar from the abolition of the slave trade in 1873, through colonialism's 'free labour' to the creation of a capitalist economy and resulting social contradictions leading to the insurrection of 1964. Illustrated with b/w photographs and statistical tables. Index, bib, notes, ix, 278pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS, 0852550804