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#zanzibar — Public Fediverse posts

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  1. As #EastAfrica’s oceans change, coastal women build new livelihoods

    By ALLAN OLINGO, July 5, 2026 at 10:36 pm

    MALINDI, #Kenya (AP) — "The unfinished restaurant is still little more than concrete walls and wooden beams. As her daughter sweeps away the last piles of sand, 54-year-old Nuru Mohammed directs women hanging fishing nets to serve as decor. In a few days, the beachside restaurant on Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast will open, offering another way to earn a living.

    " 'For us women, this is hope,' says Mohammed, who, for most of her life, was one of the few fisherwomen in Malindi, a town northeast of the port city of #Mombasa. 'It will help support many families that have depended on the ocean for decades.'

    "Across East Africa’s coast, fisherfolk are increasingly turning to tourism, #EcosystemRestoration and other conservation-based businesses, reinventing their relationship with the sea as #ClimateChange, #overfishing and declining ocean health threaten their livelihoods.

    "In Kenya, women are turning restored #MangroveForests into sources of income through #beekeeping and #ecotourism. In #Tanzania’s #Zanzibar archipelago, fishing communities are protecting #CoralReefs through locally managed closures. In #Mozambique, #SeaGrassRestoration is creating jobs while reviving marine habitats. Together, these efforts are redefining resilience, not as leaving the ocean behind, but as restoring it while building enduring livelihoods.

    " 'Communities that depend on the ocean are also its best stewards,' said Andreane Martel, project director for a conservation program dubbed #ReSea. 'When local people, especially women, lead conservation, they protect #biodiversity while creating more resilient and inclusive livelihoods.' "

    Read more:
    seattletimes.com/business/as-e

    Archived version:
    archive.ph/LTBNs

    #SolarPunkSunday #ClimateResilience #OceansAreLife #Stewardship

  2. 🌴 Embrace agroecology in Zanzibar! Off-grid family farm blends permaculture, agroforestry & food sovereignty. Solar-powered, coral-rock homestead with gardens & goats 🌿🐐. Join simple holistic farm life! agroecologymap.org/l/480 #Zanzibar #Permaculture #Agroecology #Sustainability

  3. Maasai warriors, dhow boats, endless coastline — Zanzibar's magic in one shot 🌊🚣

    Read more: flip.it/914tVI

    #travel #tanzania #zanzibar

  4. "Je resterai un mois ici [à Aden], avant de partir pour #zanzibar Je ne me décide pas gaiement pour cette direction ; je n’en vois revenir les gens que dans un état déplorable, quoiqu’on me dise qu’on y trouve des choses à entreprendre."
    ("I will stay here [in Aden] for a month, before leaving for Zanzibar. I am not happily deciding on this direction; I only see people returning from there in a deplorable state, although I am told there are things to be undertaken there.")
    #Rimbaud never went

  5. Cine Afrique, Zanzibar

    I wish I had been there when it was still a movie theatre ...
    The facade still beautiful today.

    #Cine #Afrique #Cinema #Movie #Theatre #Celluloid #Art #Zanzibar #GoldenDays (not in all respects) #Mercury #FreddieMercury

  6. Embrace the rhythm of a Zanzibari off-grid sanctuary where permaculture weaves food sovereignty, solar warmth, and coral stone soul. 🏡🌱🌊 agroecologymap.org/l/480 #Permaculture #Agroecology #Zanzibar

  7. Siti Muharam – Romance Revolution

    amf.didiermary.fr/siti-muharam

    Siti Muharam, the ‘Golden Voice’ of Zanzibar, pays homage to the musical legacy of her Great Grandmother, Siti Binti Saad in her album “Siti of Unguja (Romance Revolution On Zanzibar)” in 2020.

    ‘Siti’ is an arabic prefix meaning ‘lady’ and this record reignites the passions of the trailblazing Siti Binti Saad and the golden timbre […]

    #Taarab #Tanzania #Zanzibar #Folk