Bridging cultures and cuisines: How New Orleans, Zanzibar became ‘sisters’
The Box restaurant owner, Asley- Marie (left), Mayor of Zanzibar Municipal Council Ali Haji (right) and representatives from the City of New Orleans walk in Stone Town. PHOTO | FILE
Zanzibar. Stonetown, the vibrant urban part of Zanzibar island, is exuberant with life, the melting pot of cultures and languages, it's normal to walk up to a local who speaks multiple languages with ease, and most young Zanzibari tour guides are conversant in Italian, and Portuguese just as much as he can speak Kiswahili.
That’s the convenience tourists feel in connecting with the people as many, who came for a short vacation, have turned into residents adding to the list of investors contributing to its booming tourism sector.
