page_title: Swahili people
section_title: Zanzibar
hierarchical_section_title: Swahili people / Notable people / Zanzibar
caption_attribution_description: English: Portrait of Hamed bin Mohammed bin Juma bin Rajab bin Mohammed bin Said el Murgebi Known as Tippu Tip a Zanzibari Slave trader. This is a picture of a painting of the House of Wonders museum Stone town Zanzibar
context_page_description: The Swahili people are an ethnic and cultural group inhabiting East Africa. Members primarily reside on the Swahili coast, in an area encompassing the Zanzibar archipelago, littoral Kenya, the Tanzania seaboard, and northern Mozambique. The name Swahili is derived from Arabic: سواحل‎, romanized: Sawāhil, lit. 'coasts'. The Swahili speak the Swahili language, which belongs to the Bantu branch of the Niger-Congo family.
context_section_description: Salim Ahmed Salim, the sixth Secretary General of the Organisation of African Unity
  Seif Sharif Hamad, Vice President of Zanzibar
  Ali Mohamed Shein, the seventh President of Zanzibar
  Amani Abeid Karume, the sixth President of Zanzibar
  Abeid Karume, the first President of Zanzibar
  Abdulrahman Mohamed Babu, Zanzibari revolutionary nationalist
  Ali Karume, Tanzanian Ambassador to Italy
  Salmin Amour, the fifth President of Zanzibar
  Shamsi Vuai Nahodha, former Chief Minister of Zanzibar
  Zakia Meghji, former Minister of Finance
  Ali Hassan Mwinyi, the second President of Tanzania
  Mwinyi Aboud Jumbe, the second President of Zanzibar
  Hussein Mwinyi, Minister of Health and Social Welfare
  Rashid Seif Suleiman, Minister of Communication and Infrastructure
  Tippu Tip
  Barghash bin Said
  Siti binti Saad
  Sayyida Salme
  Said Salim Bakhresa, businessman
  Ahmed bin Hamad al-Khalili the Grand Mufti of the Sultanate of Oman
caption: Swahili-Zanzibari trader Tippu Tip
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