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GROWING UP IN THE ALLOO HOUSEHOLD AT SOKOMOHOGO IN ZANZIBAR The famous Alloo Sokomohogo House, (Soko-Market, Mohogo-Cassava) A BRIEF LOOK BACK AT OUR ANCESTORSAND THE HOUSE: The area where the house is built was once a cassava market. We estimate that the house was built in the mid-1940s by…
PERFECT MAANDAZI My early memories of growing up in Zanzibar are invariably tied to Nai Misid (an abbreviation of Navi Masjid or “new mosque”). It was a place we visited very often – daily for the evening prayers and the commemorations of Wafast (death anniversaries) and Wiladats (birthday celebrations)…