- Figure 7.17. Even though people of different means lived in different types of structures, these structures were not always in separate areas of Omani Zanzibar. (a) A typical (Arab) stone house next to huts. (Source: www.zanzibarhistory.org.) (b) The typical shopfront house of a merchant. Leigh described such shops as “mere holes raised a foot or two above the street.” (Source: www.zanzibarhistory.org.) (c) A typical street in Ng’ambo defined by single-storied Swahili houses with makuti roofs. Referring to such streets, the first Hand book of Zanzibar noted the “silence and cleanliness” of Ng’ambo. It is noteworthy that the street has a stone house at the end. (Source: The Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies Winterton Collection, Northwestern University.)
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