Ng'ambo
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Ng'ambo is a suburb of Zanzibar City.
Ng'ambo was, until 1850, a small community of African slaves, but by 1895 it comprised 15 wards and was home to 15,000 people.[1] By 1922 its population was twice that of nearby Stone Town and by the time of independence from Britain in 1964 it housed 80,000 people.[1]
Ng'ambo was, following the 1964 Zanzibar Revolution, the site of the New Zanzibar Project, a 1968 urban redevelopment scheme started at the instigation of the revolutionary government. This scheme was funded, in part, by the German Democratic Republic.[2] It was to be the start of a project to provide the entire population of Zanzibar with western-style apartments, located in ten new towns.[3] The 1968 plan called for 9,992 apartments to be built in the Soviet-style on land created by the demolition of existing homes.[4] The new apartments were often reserved for ASP party members or doled out as favours and so many of those whose homes had been demolished were left without a place to live.[5] The small apartments were unpopular with Zanzibaris used to large families and construction stopped after just 1,102 apartments were built and the project viewed as a political failure, although they have seen a resurgence in use as starter homes.[5]
References
- ^ a b Shillington 2005, p. 1710
- ^ Myers 1994, p. 452
- ^ Myers 1994, p. 453
- ^ Myers 1994, p. 455
- ^ a b Myers 1994, p. 457
Bibliography
- Myers, Garth A. (1994), "Making the Socialist City of Zanzibar", Geographical Review 84 (4): 451–464, http://www.jstor.org/stable/215759.
- Shillington, Kevin (2005), Encyclopedia of African History, CRC Press, ISBN 1579582451, http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=Ftz_gtO-pngC.
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