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Memoirs of an Arabian Princess of Oman and Zanzibar - The Extraordinary Life of a Muslim Princess Between East and West

Memoirs of an Arabian Princess of Oman and Zanzibar - The Extraordinary Life of a Muslim Princess Between East and West

Ruete, Emily Said

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Biographies GeneralBlack American StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1906393095
ISBN13: 9781906393090
Publisher: Trotamundas Press
Published: Mar 30 2008
Pages: 308
Weight: 0.91
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
This unique book is the only autobiography written by a Princess of Zanzibar in the 19th century. Emily Ruete was born Sayyida, Princess of Zanzibar, in 1844. Zanzibar was then ruled by Omani Arabs and had grown rich from the slave trade and ivory from continental Africa and spices from the island of Zanzibar. They had spread their influence and swahili language as far west as Kisangani on the Congo river. It was a time of european traders and missionaries, harbingers of colonization and crusades against the slave trade. The Princess eloped with a German trader and moved to Germany, having been rejected by her family in Zanzibar. In this book, which she wrote to leave a record of her history for her children, she describes life in the Zanzibar royal palace and plantations, life in the harem, traditions, palace intrigues and overthrows, slaves, the status of women etc. This is a great book for anyone interested in Zanzibar or the history of Eastern Africa.

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