Living in Zanzibar–The Pros & Cons!
Living in Zanzibar–The Pros & Cons!
In this episode, I dive into the realities of living on the beautiful island of Zanzibar! Social media often shows paradise, but what’s it really like to call this place home? I share the pros and cons from my experience living here—covering everything from the idyllic beaches and unique culture to the everyday challenges that most people…
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I hope to visit it one day,I still remember a movie I have seen in the early 1960s.
As far as i know you cant buy land in Zanzibar if you dont have their citizenship. Even mainland Tanzanian cant buy land in Zanzibar. How did you do it?
Interesting. So beautiful to hear about Zanzibar.
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Excellent.sister! I'm excited to see a Habesha with such an elegance and knowledgeable video.
I love the annual fighting tradition in Zanzibar! 😅😅😅
Nairobi is worse, very unsafe. The police will stop you even if your papers are ok, just to get bribed.
I pray Bill Gates and his comrades did not buy farm lands and no GMO fruit and vegetables like Tanzania and Kenya
In this world 🌎 if you are a foreigner people will take advantage to scam you i watched many videos in YouTube i witnessed many vloggers complaining about this its not only at Zanzibar! and again you explained how small amount of dollars you can pay if you bought in Zanzibar so you think locals they don't don't either in western countries could pay more than that! People are travelling they know how same thing you could buy for high price in your country so they take advantage and get more profit from the buyer 😊
Well said 🙏
I like your candor.
Weyni do you know of any volunteer work for someone from the US to go there?
African corruptions are an endless
It is informative message weyni, Why not you establish tour website to locate tourist to Ethiopia and other African countries based on concrete information?
Black people (African, Jamaican, Aborigines etc) are naturally blessed ❤
This is an excellent post. Reminds me of living in Nevis in the Caribbean… but they have good wifi.
With so much money coming in to the island, they could of fixed the electricity supply. This was a problem in 2017!! I wonder about corruption there.
Hi, I was there in 2005, on the Paje side, it was very underdeveloped. There were a few places to stay that were very local. In fact, I stayed at Red Monkey, that just had 2 rooms, and was a restaurant. I remember the owner cooking on an open fire. There was a local rasta place, to listen to drumming. Stone town was also low key with hardly any tourists. It was idyllic. I went back in 2014 as I was working in Dar es Salam, and visited it until 2017. I witnessed drastic changes, a lot of land had been sold to foreigners. More recently a friend told me that one of my favourite places now has 5 star hotels and a pier with luxury cabins on. I understand that the locals have benefitted from more work and money coming in, but the authorities have run amuck by not protecting the beauty and nature of this special island.
Shukurina, you speak a fluent English. Wondering where you learned to speak English? The cons are similar to that of Ethiopia, including the capital.
Excellent video on Zanzabar!❤
How about to have work there is that possible
Do People Get Hurt at that Festival?
My first English Habesha YouTube ወይኒ አማርኛስ እንዴት ነሽ? 😊
PEACE WENYI!WE APPRECIATE YOU.EXCELLENT PRESENTATION.STAY STRONG
Are you agent? What is your contact detail, I’m Eritrean, I want to visit with my family
Wonderfully thoughtful, balanced, informed, and insightful. I’ve seen and lived in many other idyllic and storied, culturally rich and friendly destinations that have been ruined by mass tourism and seen how it it is virtually killing the goose that lays the country’s golden eggs. I wish you could have discussed the darker side of tourism (drugs, economic exploitation, sex tourism, dispossession of locals and destruction of the local built environment) and whether these are on the rise in paradise! And… since you are a Kiswahili speaker and know Zanzibar I wish you could have included the Nobel Prize winning novels of the Zanzibari Abdulrazak Gurnah in your presentation- perhaps in a future video? Lakini bila shaka asante sana. Nakukushkuru
I like that you have to earn the trust and support of locals, if you don't include them you won't succeed. I appreciate this on the other hand perceptive matters $500 per month is not cheap and this is the problem when so called people from the diaspora come to Africa. You are impacting locals' lives by increasing cost of living.
Just be aware of such things.
First time here. So glad I came across your video! Very informative. I'll def check out your other videos… Thank you sister!!!
I hope your father, Isayas Afewerk, learns about the absence of crime and the peace you are discussing in Zanzibar so that he may grant freedom to the people of Eritrea.
Hageri eyalesh ke sew hager min abatish new mitseriw?
I went to Mombasa and love it
Question why not just settle in your roots… Ethiopia…or Eritrea
Question why not just settle in your roots… Ethiopia…or Eritrea
Zanzibar is not a welcoming place for Western Travellers the locals arent friendly at all.
"Slow" I s relative … if you want it fast, stay where there's a drive-through ❤❤❤
It's nice to see an Ethiopian and Eritrean heritage studying anthropology elsewhere. I did that, too.
Back-packers are not good for the local economy they don't spend the big money…I worked in Turkey and the Gulf Arabs would never want change and spent well, so the local restaurants wanted their custom other European tourists did not spend as well or tip as well…
This is the best video Ive seen Thank you! Regarding the police is it everywhere on the island that they stop people? Im going in a few weeks I want to make sure its safe if this happens how to get out of it?
Wonderful presentation. 🙏for sharing. Hey, by the way, “Swahili” is not African language. It a mixed, mishmash of words taken from invaders such as—French, English, Portuguese, Arabic. It’s a concussion of words borrowed from the invaders’ languages mixed with some local African words. Moreover, It doesn’t have alphabet or grammar of its own. However,Amharic is an indigenous African language with indigenous Gieze Alphabet, Grammar & Calendar. Highly sophisticated, orderly & organized. . Other ancient nations including Greek formed their alphabet from this pool of Gieze Alphabet.
Prayers from Ethiopia
Poor girl should have been talking about Dahlak Islands , Massawa , Assab Eritrea but couldn’t because she’s a refugee
Very honest observation. ❤
Legit. She's good and honest.
choose 1.5x … thank me later.
Beautiful and brilliant creator.