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In the News (Sat 12 Dec 09)

  
  Bagamoyo in Tanzania
Bagamoyo was the starting point of the slave caravan routes and also the terminus of the white missionaries.
Bagamoyo was founded towards the end of the 18th century as a small port trading in dried fish, gum, cobalt and salt.
Bagamoyo's importance began to decline when in 1940 the Sultan of Oman, Seyyid Said, decided to move his capital from Muscat to Zanzibar, to be closer to his dominion along the Eastern African coast.
www.takimsholidays.com /coast/bagamoyo.asp   (287 words)

  
 BAGAMOYO - LoveToKnow Article on BAGAMOYO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
distant, Bagamoyo became the startingpoint for caravans to the great lakes, and an entrept of trade with the interior of the continent.
Bagamoyo is in telegraphic communication with Zanzibar and with the other coast towns of German East Africa, and has regular steamship communication with Zanzibar.
Of the explorers who made Bagarnoyo the starting-point for their journeys to the interior of Africa, the most illustrious were Sir Richard Burton, J. Speke, J. k Grant and Sir FT. M.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BA/BAGAMOYO.htm   (176 words)

  
 The Hidden Gems of Tanzania
Although Bagamoyo is no longer the busy port city that it once was, Tanzania’s Department of Antiquities is working to revitalize the town and maintain the dozens of ruins in and around it.
The Bagamoyo Museum is located at the mission, and the town’s history is explained in detail at the museum.
Bagamoyo is a very peaceful place, and offers a refuge from the bustling cities of Dar es Salaam and Arusha.
www.theculturedtraveler.com /Archives/JUN2004/Tanzania.htm   (1333 words)

  
 Sida - Cultural heritage can contribute to healing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Slaves were sold in Bagamoyo up to the end of the 1800s (despite the fact that the slave trade was banned in 1873).
Bagamoyo is situated on the coast, opposite Zanzibar, and was previously the capital of Tanzania.
In Bagamoyo there is a historical treasure preserved in the form of architecture, which reflects the towns multi-cultural and, at times, terrifying history.
www.sida.se /Sida/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=694&a=36508   (239 words)

  
 New tourism in the Third World   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Translated into the situation in Bagamoyo today, this means that it is crucial for the town to be ready to deal with investors when they come, and this will be probably be soon.
If Bagamoyo is to be purposefully developed as tourist destination in a successful way, both for the tourists and the local population, it is essential to get it all right from the start.
Bagamoyo is a small town, and longer stays in Tanzania probably have to be combined with this kind of other excursions.
www.ark3.lth.se /diploma/intheheart/Tourism.htm   (4887 words)

  
 Tanzania Education Fund
Nianjema Secondary School in Bagamoyo, Tanzania, is a day school geared toward the girls and boys of the town.
Bagamoyo has about 30,000 residents, but until Nianjema opened in 2000 there was no secondary school for day students.
Bagamoyo is a port town on the Indian Ocean used by Muslim traders from the 13th century and later used by early explorers of East Africa.
www.tanzaniaeducation.org   (144 words)

  
 Bagamoyo Swahili Historical town; Bwaga Moyo
The name Bagamoyo comes from Swahili words "bwaga moyo" (throw down your heart), a despair expressed by people who were captured as slaves of knowing that they face a long uncertain future.
The Bagamoyo Church: It was was built in 1868 and considered to be the first church in East Coast of Africa.
Bagamoyo Museum: It is a small museum, which displays Bagamoyo history in relation to its contact with foreigners.
www.utalii.com /Off_the_normal_path/Bagamoyo_Historical_Town.htm   (468 words)

  
 Freundeskreis Bagamoyo e.V.: Kunst und Kultur   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
But Bagamoyo was wasn't just a trade center for slaves and trade goods (ivory or copra, which was won from coconuts and was used for the production of soap) or a center for boat building, but also the starting point for the first European "discoverers".
In 1888 the German colonial forces declared Bagamoyo the capital of the new colony and built the Boma, the German colonial headquarters.
Large parts of Bagamoyo were burned down, and Bushiri gathered his troops in front of the city for a general attack.
www.bagamoyo.com /en/bagamoyo/history.html   (1385 words)

  
 Bagamoyo Historical sites and tourism attractions areas.
Bagamoyo is one of the most fascinating towns in East Africa.
The second theory (which is thought to be more probable) contends that Bagamoyo was named by the caravan porters who felt they had reached the end of their long arduous journey form the interior now cease worrying, cease from the caravan and anxiety.
Bagamoyo is the closest mainland town to the world famous spice island of Zanzibar and is only an hour's sail away.
www.paradiseresort.net /bag1.htm   (1204 words)

  
 Tourism
Bagamoyo is said to mean: "Here I lay down my heart", a cry of despair of slaves before they were forced aboard vessels for their trip into captivity.
Bagamoyo in the recent past has had many hotel investors in the area, which is slowly turning Bagamoyo into a must-see eco-tourism spot in Tanzania graced with the fine beach with comfortable accommodation facilities.
What makes Bagamoyo special, however, is the virgin natural beauty and probably it is one place which gives you the heavy aroma of nature, the waves and winds which slam against the shores, which provide a real-life experience.
www.arushatimes.co.tz /2003/44/features_5.htm   (1181 words)

  
 Avocet Tanzania Safaris:
A holiday At Bagamoyo is highly suitable for people fond of nature and of authentic Africa not yet influenced by progress and mass tourism.
Bagamoyo tour: a visit to the ancient buildings and ruins of the 19th century when Bagamoyo was the capital of the German East Africa Company.
Bagamoyo theatre: a visit to the Chuo Cha Sanaa, the most important art school of Eastern Africa.
www.avocetsafaris.com /hotels/livindstoneclub.htm   (695 words)

  
 Kenneth Hudson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
It was Bagamoyo, which I visited in 1975, which really converted me into an enthusiast for the area-as-museum concept, or eco-museum as this came to be known when a professionally sanctified label was thought to be required.
What Bagamoyo needed was an impresario and it was its misfortune and an historical accident that the impresarios at that time happened to be devoting their attention and their prestige to sites in France, not in Tanzania.
The second possibility was that the transformation of Bagamoyo into an ecomuseum would have been planned for the benefit of tourists, as part of a wider scheme to attract foreign visitors to Tanzania.
www.nordiskmuseologi.com /www/nm/962/hudson962.html   (4132 words)

  
 AIM Search Opportunities
Bagamoyo is located along the Indian ocean coast 75km north of Dar es Salaam.
Since Bagamoyo is located on the coast, it has a tropical climate, and is seated in the plains.
Tanzania is composed of three major geographical zones: a narrow lowland coastal strip along the Indian Ocean; a plateau that extends over the majority of the interior; and a mountainous region in the north and south.
www.aim-us.org /opportunities/search_opportunities/searchopps.asp?positionID=66&Detail=1   (159 words)

  
 Tanzania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
He went to Bagamoyo for studies and later became a resident of the town.
Shogollo was born in 1965 in Northern Tanzania.
Prudenciana was born in 1981 in Ifakara, Tanzania.
www.faces.fi /?id=724   (281 words)

  
 Bagamoyo - Let's Go Travel Safaris
Bagamoyo is situated on the coast north of Dar es Salaam, it is only accessible by road, which at present in poor repair.
It is a fascinating historical town, being situated on the mainland coast close to Zanzibar it grew in the 1800s as a centre for the caravans travelling in land.
Bagamoyo was the port through which many of the explorers, including Dr Livingstone, passed.
www.lets-go-travel.net /?q=node/view/343   (169 words)

  
 Tanzania - ICOMOS World Report on Monuments and Sites in Danger 2001: Heritage @ Risk
Bagamoyo is a small coastal town with a natural harbour, 70 kilometres north of Dar es Salaam.
Bagamoyo was at that time the most important city of mainland Tanganyika and the most important harbour in East Africa.
The heritage of Bagamoyo consists of a mixture of German colonial buildings, buildings and facilities related to the slave trade and slave route, and buildings of the merchants and financiers of Indian origin.
www.international.icomos.org /risk/2001/tanz2001.htm   (1931 words)

  
 THE ATMOSPHERE OF BAGAMOYO   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Bagamoyo gained its name in the caravan days when the streets where dense with people and merchandise.
Bagamoyo was the ending point of a major slave trade route that began in the Lake Tanganyika area.
Bagamoyo gained twice from the slave trade; the town expanded not only because of its commercial magnetism but also from the African tribes that fled famine and conflicts along the slave trade route.
www.tanserve.com /bagamoyo/beach.html   (527 words)

  
 Bagamoyo GlobeinterSafaris   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Seventy Kilometres north of Dar es Salaam, Bagamoyo ("Lay down Your heart") was the original capital of German East Africa and was in its heyday, one of the most important slaving towns in East Africa.
In the 19th century, Bagamoyo became the main trade center, and due to the Arabs and Indians, the town increased the trade of slaves and ivory transport to Zanzibar, Europe, Arab and Asian countries.
OLD BAGAMOYO: (Old fort, old provision house) oldest surviving building in Bagamoyo, built in 1860, used by the Arab and Germans till 1870 and of late till 1992 was used as a police post.
www.globeintersafaris.com /bagamoyo.html   (751 words)

  
 Leopard Tours - Bagamoyo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
It is a place of considerable significance to world history, both as an entry point for Arab and European missionaries, explorers, and traders in East and Central Africa, and in the history of the infamous slave trade.
Fortunately Bagamoyo is now being considered for inclusion into one of the World Heritage sites, to conserve and protect the fascinating Gothic and Afro-Arabic architecture in this coastal settlement steeped in history.
Bagamoyo white sand beaches are considered some of the finest on the whole of the East African coast.
www.leopard-tours.com /bagamoyo.htm   (115 words)

  
 Tanzania's witch-doctors cast spells for votes - Boston.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
BAGAMOYO, Tanzania (Reuters) - The witch-doctors in the former slave port of Bagamoyo on Tanzania's coast are busy concocting spells to help the east African country's politicians win votes in this month's elections.
A majority of Tanzania's 35 million people are either Christian or Muslim, but most also respect the animist beliefs of their ancestors and often consult witch-doctors for help with money problems, affairs of the heart and illnesses.
The coastal region of Bagamoyo northeast of the capital Dar es Salaam is renowned for the quality of its witch-doctors.
www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2005/10/24/tanzanias_witch_doctors_cast_spells_for_votes   (898 words)

  
 Tanzania Tourist Board :: Places to Go :: Towns and Cities :: Bagamoyo
The town of Bagamoyo was one of the most important trading ports on the East African coast and the penultimate stop of slave and ivory caravans travelling on foot from Lake Tanganyika on their way to Zanzibar.
Once the caravans reached Bagamoyo, the slaves and ivory were shipped by dhow to Zanzibar, where they were then dispatched all over the world.
These days, Bagamoyo is a centre of dhow building in the region and along the Tanzanian coast.
www.tanzaniatouristboard.com /places_to_go/towns_and_cities/bagamoyo   (181 words)

  
 TANZANIA 1995
Bagamoyo is a town on the coast 75km.
Bagamoyo was a centre for the slave trade and for a short period was the capital of German East Africa.
Until it can be established otherwise, this collection, between Bagamoyo and the Ruvu ferry, could be regarded as being the first confirmed locality for this species.
www.bka.org.uk /tan3.php   (1485 words)

  
 Welcome to Bagamoyo Secondary School   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Bagamoyo Secondary School is situated at Magambani high Ridge, which is between Kaole Village and Bagamoyo town.
Bagamoyo Town is easily accessible by newly constructed tarmac road that is served by regular buses fromUbungo terminal in Dar es Salaam from early in the morning to late evening.
The only access to the School is by road between Bagamoyo town and the “Kaole ruins” (Kaole ruins which early was known as Pumbuji was the first settlement of the Arabs from Persia in 13th Century (1270).
www.rs-beckum.de /04/bagamoyo   (1179 words)

  
 Private Safaris
Although Bagamoyo is no longer the busy port city that it once was, Tanzania’s Department of Antiquities is working to revitalize the town and maintain the dozens of ruins in and around Bagamoyo.
Bagamoyo was the major slave trading post in East Africa.
Bagamoyo, which means ‘lay down your heart’ in Swahili, was probably given this name because Bagamoyo was the last place the slaves would stay in Tanzania before being shipped off to foreign lands.
www.privatesafaris.co.ke /nptz.asp?parkid=28   (158 words)

  
 Bobby Camping Safaris :: The Coastal Places   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Some 75 km to the north of Dar es salaam, on the coast opposite Zanzibar, is the former capital of German East Africa, Bagamoyo.
Possessing a good, natural harbor ideal for sailing vessels and dhows, it was once the centre of the notorious slave trade.
The present police station, near the beachfront, was the first stone building in Bagamoyo.
www.habari.co.tz /bobbycamping/parks/bagamoyo.htm   (223 words)

  
 Coatal_circuit   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Bagamoyo was first settled in by fishermen and cultivators.
The Name Bagamoyo came from the word Bwagamoyo meaning "lay down the burden of your heart".
Another theory of the origin of Bagamoyo is that the name originated from slave who said that their hearts would forever remain in their land.
www.theclassictours.com /coastal_circuit.htm   (1473 words)

  
 ded District Livestock Support - Bagamoyo District   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Bagamoyo District is located on the north-eastern side of Coast Region (Pwani) and among the six Districts of that region.
Bagamoyo was the first Capital (1888-1891) and also the most important seaport of German-East-Africa.
The town Bagamoyo is situated 70 km North-West of Dar-es-Salaam.
www.ded-tanzania.de /fglw/bls.html   (881 words)

  
 Peace Through Tourism and ATA Delegates visit Bagamoyo, Tanzania
Famous for its slave and ivory trade, Bagamoyo was also the first capital of Tanzania under German Colonial rule until it shifted in 1892 to Dar es Salaam.
Bagamoyo, if accepted as a "World Heritage" site, would be the seventh such site on UNESCO's World Heritage list in Tanzania: the four natural sites are Mt. Kilimanjaro, Ngorongoro Crater, Serengeti National Park and Selous Game Reserve; the two cultural sites are Zanzibar Stone Town and Kilwa Kisiwani/Songo Mnara ruins in Lindi region.
We visit the headquarters of German East Africa; the fort where slaves were kept before being shipped to Zanzibar; the oldest mission in Central and East Africa; the museum in the center of town which tells the slave story as well as that of Dr. Livingstone.
www.africa-ata.org /tz_bagamoyo_sculptures.htm   (662 words)

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