Fine fabrics for every taste: The biggest choice and best prices in town offers Suma, a not-so-easy-to-find local store on three floors in Darajani. Printed fabrics in bold colours and flowing dresses – even though most of Zanzibari women cover themselves according to Muslim tradition, they do it in their very own style, colourful and […]
Sharmin Esmail brings charm and style to the top post of town manager For the first time the unique position of town manager in Fumba Town is filled with a woman - adding that subtle, but all-important difference of a female touch The cats Mia and Sheba, both foundlings, purr when Sharmin Esmail enters her cosy […]
Fatma Mabrouk Khamis, 43, Principal Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism, about the virtues of living in Fumba with her 5-year-old son. Eight months ago you became a resident of Fumba Town. What do you like most? The sense of community and security. For a single working mum like me the support system around is […]
Two lady entrepreneurs open "boutique with a meaning " Modest dresses with a modern twist - and good advice - are offered in the new Mbweni boutique Doll House. The moment you step in, you are in a comfort zone. A light and airy feeling prevails at Doll House Boutique. Rahima, one of the two […]
Zanzibar a sugar-producing island? It’s happening already! Almost singlehandedly Rahim M. Bhaloo resurrected the ailing sugar industry in Zanzibar. He now produces 8,500 tons of the “white gold” per year – and could do much more. It’s 11 o’clock in the morning and all machinery running smoothly when we enter the sugar cane mill in […]
Episodes from planet Fumba Narrated by the very people who live and work there I learned something new today. I was walking around the Kwetu Kwenu Farmer’s Market when I saw a table that was selling coins that could be worn as jewelry. I had been in the search for a nice neck piece. They […]
Welcome little ones! First kids have enrolled at the Silverleaf Academy nursery and pre-primary in Fumba - and you can help them. When I visit the school, eight kids between two and six years old are happily munching chips and mayai on the front porch of the white six-room town house turned learning facility. “Routines […]
When I first heard about Zanzibar from work contacts I never thought I would get here. But when, after months of quarantine, the Russian government opened borders in August for just two destinations, Tanzania and Turkey, I knew what to do. Having visited Turkey, I decided to venture to Africa for the first time. I […]
