April 14, 2025
Meet me on Sunset Drive
The streets of Fumba: named after flowers, Tanzanian classics and Swahili spices With more and more roads paved, a stunning highway-like entrance and about 1,400 homes sold, Fumba Town is ready to get street names. Signboards in green and white are in the making. It was the community that chose the names. On a Sunday
April 8, 2025
Football Fever
2027 Africa Cup of Nations in East Africa Africa’s biggest football tournament is coming to East Africa in 2027. Rumours have it that Zanzibar might yet become one of the hosts. For the first time the biennial soccer competition, the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) will be held in three different countries in 2027 –
April 8, 2025
The Glass Miracle
Chako upcycling creates 50 jobs There are bottles everywhere. Of course. This is Chako’s raw material! Chako (Swahili for yours) is the oldest glass collection company in Zanzibar creating handcrafted art products from waste. When we visit the factory near Bububu, more than 50 women and men are busy cutting used bottles into new shapes;
March 24, 2025
The Big Make-over
Who and what is behind the ongoing facelift of Stone Town of Zanzibar’s historic heart? By Andrea Tapper The historic quarter of Zanzibar is undergoing a massive overhaul and facelift. Exclusively for THE FUMBA TIMES, state conservator Ali Said Bakar and private investor Samuel Saba revealed their plans for the evocative make-over during a discovery
March 21, 2025
New Chance For Stone Town
EXCLUSIVE – Two men on a joint mission to beautify Zanzibar’s historic heart By Andrea Tapper Never before has there been a concerted action like this: The whole of Stone Town and several of its historical icons are being dusted-off, renovated, modernised, repaired and repainted. Two men have vowed to tackle the mammoth task. From
March 20, 2025
Enjoying Zanzibar during Ramadan
What visitors should know about the Holy Month By Winnie Mollel Contrary to what some people may think, Zanzibar is not off limits to tourists during Ramadan. In fact, the most holy month of the Muslim calendar can be an especially enlightening time. Ramadan (also written Ramadhan) is the fasting month in Islam, a time
February 25, 2025
My Beautiful Launderette
The figures hit us straight away. When we heard that Pure Laundry, a new enterprise in Fumba Uptown, could wash, dry and neatly fold 7.2 tonnes of laundry per day, we knew that THE FUMBA TIMES had to visit the place. 7.2 tonnes – that’s about 1,000 normal household washing machine loads. Per day! Behind
February 3, 2025
Street Art Explosion
Watch street art live in the making from 3-17 February, 2025 in Fumba Town, workshops for kids included. Black gorillas on the wall of the mall, a giraffe in a restaurant. Eight public spaces and two private houses are being converted into colourful objects during a very first ‘Street Art Festival’ in Fumba Town in
January 27, 2025
Urban Planners love Fumba
The first university poised for Fumba Town in Zanzibar, the renowned African School of Economics (ASE), opened with an extraordinary diploma course on urban planning. The first university poised for Fumba Town in Zanzibar, the renowned African School of Economics (ASE), opened with an extraordinary diploma course on urban planning. Around 40 participants are taking
January 15, 2025
“We Saved our Forest"
New: biking and walking tours in Masingini Forest Students of Kawa, a hospitality school in Stone Town sponsored by the TUI Care Foundation, are re-growing and protecting a whole forest in Zanzibar – thus creating a new tourist attraction. Abu is leading the way. The student of Kawa training centre, also known as TUI academy,
January 2, 2025
The life of DJ Coconut
Turning the tide for women at the turntable For decades, DJ booths have been dominated by men, their playlists shaping dance floors from New York to Nairobi. But the tides are shifting. Zanzibar’s very own DJ Coconut aka Zainab is part of that global wave of change. Twilight hour in Fumba. Fisherman Ali of Nyamanzi
December 30, 2024
The Green Adventure
A different kind of Zanzibar tour for curious holidaymakers. Tired of spice tours, dolphin tours, Stone Town tours? Tourists can now explore the sustainable side of Zanzibar including a delicious farm-to-table dinner, modern timber construction and a living botanical garden. It’s hot. But it’s always hot in Zanzibar. And before we have even fully started,
