How To Use Zanzibar In A Sentence

  • They have been noticed north of the Zambesi, at the head of Lake Nyassa, in the Nguru mountains near Zanzibar, on the Lulua, on the Sankuru and in the horse-shoe bend of the Kongo, in the Kuango valley, in French Kongo, on the Aruwimi, on the Blue Nile, and in Abyssinia. Africa and the American Negro...Addresses and Proceedings of the Congress on Africa Held Under the Auspices of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa of Gammon Theological Seminary in Connection with the Cotton States and International Exposition De
  • It was while staying at Bombay as Mr. Lumsden's guest that Burton, already cloyed with civilization, conceived the idea of journeying, via Zeila in Somaliland, to the forbidden and therefore almost unknown city of Harar, and thence to Zanzibar. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
  • This is a project set up by a Zanzibari scientist who tries to help the women who live in Zanzibar grow little shell fish so they can either sell them or eat them, says Mitchell. Environmental Writer Blames Humans for Dying Oceans
  • Scinde, musk from Tibet, galbanum from Khorasan; from Afghanistan, asafetida; from Persia, sagapenum; ambergris and civet from Zanzibar, and from Zanzibar came ivory, too. Messer Marco Polo
  • Ever since Zanzibar closed last year, we've been missing announcements for soca and Caribbean dance parties in D.C. Getting Up Guide: Get on your dancing shoes
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  • Instead, a young man greeted me with great jubilance, introduced himself and then explained that he was Zanzibar's self-proclaimed "Director for Obama '08. Jared Cohen: History's Most Accessible Inauguration Provides A Spotlight On Change
  • One of the Zanzibari dancers wrapped her red, yellow and black cloth shawl, called a kanga, around the Duchess's shoulders and encouraged her to dance more. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
  • There was a camel corps from India, the Dyak police from Borneo, Muslim zaptiehs in their red fezzes, soldiers from Fiji, Egypt, Sierra Leone, Zanzibar and many more.
  • The best souk is in Muscat, where stalls groan under the weight of antique silver (all sold by weight), tribal art from Zanzibar, dishdashas, frankincense and exotic perfumes.
  • Zanzibar was witness to all the chaos and entanglement that had befallen the Khojas of that era.
  • In each section, perspective shifts between Burton and the voices of those men he encounters along the way: his Indian servant tells the stories of his travails with Burton to a scribe; the qadi, the governor, and the shari in Mecca investigate Burton's hajj; and Sidi Mubarak Bombay, his African guide, shares his story with friends in Zanzibar. The Collector of Worlds by Iliya Troyanov: Book summary
  • In Tanzania, the Swahili coverage of the FA Cup final can be heard on the BBC relays, 94.1 FM in Zanzibar and 93.5 FM in Pemba.
  • Stand on Zanzibar is in the Masterworks series, but Shockwave Rider resonates even more with where we are today. MIND MELD: The Forgotten Books of SF/F/H
  • We unstuck, climbed out over Dar es Salaam Harbour, turned north, flew past Zanzibar and over the west coast of Pemba.
  • That brought me in a niceish bit of prize-money for a start; and, just a week arter that exactly, when we had got down to our proper cruising ground -- that was, sir, just atween Zanzibar and the The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace
  • In what one could call his middle period, he and I used to meet for drinks in the Zanzibar, that pre-Groucho haunt in Covent Garden, or for tea in the vast lounge of the Piccadilly Hotel now the Meridien, where we were often alone except for the harpist plinking away in the middle distance, her large handbag at her feet. My hero: Victoria Glendinning on John Gross
  • Zanzibar has of late become the newly discovered destination for holiday makers and honeymooners.
  • We here at The Atlantic grapple with all sorts of problems: matters glandular and jugular, animals crepuscular, extractions tonsillar, Mormons tabernacular, the politics of Simón Bolívar, diseases vascular, the arthritis of Renoir, Freddie Mercury in Zanzibar, my lost Wanderjahr, and polishing the samovar. What’s Your Problem?
  • Zanzibar received its independence from the United Kingdom on December 19, 1963, as a constitutional monarchy under the sultan.
  • It is while looking at what seems both externally and internally complete and perfect happiness that the thought occurs — how must these people sigh, when driven across the dreary wilderness that intervenes between the lake country and the sea-coast, for such homes as these! — those unfortunates who, bought by the Arabs for a couple of doti, are taken away to Zanzibar to pick cloves, or do hamal work! How I Found Livingstone
  • So let's hold off on giving Hyundai the OBE, or the Presidential Medal of Freedom, or the Star of Zanzibar. Hyundai, Your Accent Has a Pleasing Ring to It
  • The ensuing relationship was one of several associations between Zanzibar filmmakers and Warhol's factory scene.
  • ZANZIBAR: The Tanzanian spice islands of Zanzibar and Pemba were tense as delayed presidential and parliamentary voting took place in three constituencies. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • ZANZIBAR (Sapa-AP) - Members of the Zanzibar football team that won the East and Central African Challenge Cup will soon be able to tool around their island homeland on new motorcycles. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Another 400,000 on the semi-autonomous Zanzibar Island will also choose leaders under a new power-sharing system aimed at preventing election-related violence. Observers Prepare for Tanzania Polls
  • Just the name 'Zanzibar' conjures images of harem girls giggling behind gauzy veils, carved wooden doors opening to spice-filled rooms and other images from The Thousand and One Nights. FOXNews.com
  • Iran will also raise the level of Zanzibar's agricultural technology to establish the Office of Agriculture.
  • On Tuesday Fred and Charmaigne travel to Zanzibar, an island state within the United Republic of Tanzania.
  • Clashes between police and opposition protesters in Zanzibar over disputed elections have led to an unconfirmed death toll of 37.
  • Zanzibar is one of Dublin's premier cattle mart emporiums.
  • She made us buttered rice flavoured with cumin, cardamom, cinnamon and Zanzibar cloves.
  • (Zanzibar i. 205) legends of ichthyological marvels current on the The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • ZANZIBAR - Oman and Saudi Arabia have granted the Indian Ocean island of Zanzibar $16 million to improve airports. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • It was quite a change from the cold winters of Canada to the hot, sultry weather of Zanzibar.
  • Zanzibar doorways, decorated with geometric patterns, offer a glimpse of the island's Arabic history and tradition.
  • Yet I did not see a single case of true lepra Arabum, or its modifications, the huge Barbadoes leg (elephantiasis), and the sarcoma scrotale and sarcocele of Zanzibar and East Africa. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
  • _Fatima_, the first swab, as I told you, got an ugly scrape in the leg that prevented him from moving; so when the second lieutenant was put in charge of the dhow to take her up to Zanzibar, I was the only responsible man the captain could think of to send cruising with the pinnace, as the middy was a harum-scarum youngster, who hadn't got thought enough, and neither the boatswain nor Chips could be taken away from their duties without perhaps the ship suffering. The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace
  • And then there is the country beyond Freetown – the peninsula and its incredible jungle sierra, endless sands and fishing communities remind me of Zanzibar or Tobago without the hotels.
  • The film features rap, kwaito, hip-hop and traditional music from Zanzibar, Johannesburg and Cape Town.
  • Round off the trip with a lunch of Zanzibari rice and spiced tea. Times, Sunday Times
  • When his parents lived in Zanzibar, one of their houseboys had accompanied Stanley on his expedition to find Dr Livingstone.
  • Black-spotted pufferfish this Zanzibar turtle is carrying an outsize passenger - a monster remora sweepers pack into a dense wall on the bow of the Royal Navy lighter
  • A European Union spokesman said that the government must find ‘a solution which is acceptable to all parties in Zanzibar.’
  • Burton, already cloyed with civilization, conceived the idea of journeying, via Zeila in Somaliland, to the forbidden and therefore almost unknown city of Harar, and thence to Zanzibar. The Life of Sir Richard Burton
  • Another 400,000 people on the semi-autonomous Zanzibar Island will choose leaders under a new power-sharing agreement. Tanzania Ready to Vote Sunday
  • An agent of the Zanzibar custom-house presides over the customs, which are very small, and a jemidar acknowledging the Sultan is the chief authority; but the people are little superior to the natives whom they have displaced. The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death
  • In the weeks following it he was forced into hiding when, encouraged by the events in Zanzibar, his army mutinied against its British officers.
  • Zanzibar is the island of cloves and ivory and it is where Livingstone and the other Victorian explorers began their treks into the mapless nothing.
  • He makes his money at the end, when you overspend on ginger, cinnamon, cloves and the excellent Zanzibari black pepper. Times, Sunday Times
  • Backtracking from the grand speech before his defeat at Zanzibar Land, we already see the sympathetic Big Boss and his savior status with Gray Fox's tragic childhood, Dr.
  • Zanzibar has of late become the newly discovered destination for holiday makers and honeymooners.

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