Zanzibar Stone Town presents the problems of conservation in its
most acute forms. Should it be fossilised for the tourists? Or
should it grow for the benefit of the inhabitants? Can ways be
found to accommodate conflicting social and economic pressures? For
its size Zanzibar, like Venice, occupies a remarkably large
romantic space in world imagination. Swahili civilisation on these
spice islands goes back to the earliest centuries of the Islamic
era. Up until the nineteenth century it was the capital of a
trading empire which spread Kiswahili and Islam over a large part
of eastern and central African and the Indian Ocean. Zanzibar then
suffered the loss of its empire to the Germans and the British. In
the last thirty years it has passed through its second period of
crisis. After the Revolution of 1964 the new rural owners did not
have the wherewithal to maintain the old stone houses. The Stone
Town seemed to be on the verge of extinction. In the 1980s the
government reversed its policies and the old town became threatened
by rapid redevelopment which disfigures as it builds. The Old Stone
Town now stands in danger of being drastically transformed by
tourism and trade liberalisation.
General
Imprint: |
Ohio University Press
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Eastern African Studies |
Release date: |
March 1995 |
Authors: |
Abdul Sheriff
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Dimensions: |
186 x 216 x 13mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
|
Pages: |
165 |
Edition: |
illustrated edition |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8214-1120-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Sociology, social studies >
Social issues >
General
|
LSN: |
0-8214-1120-9 |
Barcode: |
9780821411209 |
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