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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

Other material quoted in this book has been taken from the sources cited below. Full publication details may be found in the Bibliography.

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