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It's really strange that an article about Zanzibar fails to mention Big Boss' military nation. 108.41.215.105 ( talk) 06:29, 20 March 2014 (UTC)
Should there be a mention of the recent acid attacks on two British women? Justgravy ( talk) 11:50, 9 August 2013 (UTC)
There have been other acts of religious/political violence (*if* the acid attacks were in fact motivated by religion or politics: has that been confirmed?), including some that have resulted in deaths. Are those incidents somehow of less importance than the assaults on Westerners? But I agree with the previous commenter: Wikipedia is not a newspaper. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jizungu ( talk • contribs) 17:27, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
I have removed several references to Zanzibar as being part of the "Great Lakes Region," but now I notice that the article is riddled with many more. I do not understand what compelled a contributor to use such misleading and inaccurate language, although I suspect the reasons may be ideological. Can anyone explain? Or, can the author of those references explain his/her reasoning? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jizungu ( talk • contribs) 17:31, 1 July 2014 (UTC)
1) African Studies Colleges/Journals in the US [ideological drivel] 2) Wikipedia [an outlet for ideological drivel] 3) The United Nations [The commissioned 'official' History of Africa (used in schools) reads like a not so great fantasy novel]
2001:8003:70F5:2400:897A:E657:5680:268F ( talk) 12:19, 2 July 2022 (UTC)
I've heard that Zanzibar originally came from Persian Zangebar (Zang= black , bar=ende of see/river, beach). is that right? As there is no g(گ) in arabic, Zangebar turned to zanjibar.
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Arabic is listed as one of the official languages of the archipelago? I have gone through various documentation and the
constitution and there is no mention of this.
I have not been able to find a single government notice in Arabic either.
Is there a source that states Arabic is an offical language in the archpeligo?
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The map is a Swedish one, so "Mafia Island" is written as "Mafiaön" and "Indian Ocean" as "Indiska Oceanen". Should it be replaced?
Afro~svwiki ( talk) 22:45, 17 March 2021 (UTC)
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Currently the following appears in the last paragraph of #2.3 Sultanate of Zanzibar is: "One of Majid's brothers, Barghash bin Said, succeeded him and was forced to abolish the slave trade in the Zanzibar Archipelago by the British. ... Another brother of Majid, Khalifa bin Said, was the third sultan of Zanzibar and furthered the relationship with the British which led to the archipelago's progress toward abolishing slavery."
That's followed by "In 1856, Sultan Majid consolidated his power around the African Great Lakes slave trade, and in 1873 Sir John Kirk informed his successor, Sultan Barghash, that a total blockade of Zanzibar was imminent, and Barghash reluctantly signed the Anglo-Zanzibari treaty which abolished the slave trade in the sultan's territories, closed all slave markets and protected liberated slaves." in #2.4 British protectorate.
To me they read as if they're from two articles. Perhaps someone could edit #2.3 and 4 so that they read more as part of the same article. Mcljlm ( talk) 04:13, 27 November 2021 (UTC)
Wikipedia's inline links are not intended to replace writing in complete, well explained sentences, they are designed as easy additional information.
My frustration with these Wikipedia articles make it difficult to keep from using offensive language here. This is why people now avoid Wikipedia inline links and why they are called rabbit hole, lazy links. For example, talking about Zanzibar's animals in the lead, why couldn't the author have used the terms "cat-like" and "monkey" along with the inline link rabbit holes to your mystery animals?? And guess what? The lead sections that those point to, —also only have other blue hole lazy-links pointing away from the definition! And so on. This is why they are called lazy links, this is why they are called rabbit holes and this is why people avoid Wikipedia inline links. They have become a sucker's gamble.
Please stop using links as crutches. And please find out where they point before you use them. Typically a few words in context will be far better than a wordy, all-encompassing, out of context link. --Doug Bashford 2607:FB91:7905:ACD3:6046:66FF:FE6B:3915 ( talk) 17:13, 12 December 2021 (UTC)
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We have to stop being a part of this Islamic propaganda ok? There is no way of knowing this because Tanzanian gvt doesn't collect data based on one's ethnicity or religion and I thk that's good news henceforth there isn't any proof of this bogus 99% which is a big swallow since we know religion is barely a choice and we are assuming all that grow up choose to remain in this religion. Even by background 99% is still a huge swallow. Even in Totalitarian Islamic theocracy like Saudi Arabia they have placed the number to around 90% yet people insist on this 99% having conducted no census or no way of knowing. We could say it's predominately Muslim yes but no official data and by estimates maybe around 80 to 85% not 99% Nlivataye ( talk) 12:20, 15 October 2022 (UTC)
But what is the source of 99% Muslim too coz I all see is also guess work too even if I check the mentioned sources Nlivataye ( talk) 15:56, 17 October 2022 (UTC)