Kenya: Muslim Ritual Meets Swahili Culture At Kenya's Unique Annual Maulidi Festival

Analysis - Lamu is a historic Swahili port town on an island off the northern coast of Kenya. Each year it hosts the famous Lamu Maulidi Festival, a sacred Muslim celebration, planned this year for 17 ...
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Zanzibar’s baobab trees used to be a valued part of society – drone images help prove it

Wolfgang Alders received funding from the US National Science Foundation, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, and the US National Endowment for the Humanities. Unguja Island, in Zanzibar, Tanzania, is part of ...