Cloves rapidly became the cornerstone of Zanzibar’s export economy. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, they were more than a cash crop; they symbolised a global trade network, ...

PEMBA, Tanzania (Reuters) - It's an idyllic sight: farmer Salim Juma yells at his agile sons as they clamber in high trees on Zanzibar's northern island of Pemba, to harvest cloves whose spicy-sweet ...

PEMBA, Tanzania — It’s springtime on this green, hilly island, and the pungent, sweet smell of cloves spices the air. Zaharan Salim’s father, who crossed the turquoise water from Oman to settle here ...

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We don’t think about spices as plants, and we really don’t think about the people who grow those plants. Spices are almost entirely grown on small farms, picked by hand, and dried in the sun. Through ...

The source of 80% of the world’s cloves, tiny, palm-wreathed Zanzibar off the coast of Tanganyika was long ruled by Arab sultans, who imported slaves from the mainland to cultivate the spice trees.

In the little Sultanate of Zanzibar off the east coast of Africa there are 180,000 Negroes, 33,000 Arabs, 15,000 Indians, 278 Europeans. The Sultan of Zanzibar, His Highness Seyyid Sir Khalifa bin ...

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