June-July 2023: MprinT Fieldwork in Zanzibar
The second MprinT fieldwork was conducted in Zanzibar in June-July 2023 by post-doc Kubra Nugay.
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The stay included trips with the Mprint partner ZIAR (Zanzibar Insititute for Archives and Records) to the villages in the south of Zanzibar to search for text within the scope of the project, and digitizing the manuscripts and early printed texts from villages beyond Kibuteni, Kizimkazi-Mkunguni, Kizimkazi-Dimbani, and Makunduchi-Kijini. Especially Sheikh Hassan b. Ameir’s collection in Makunduchi-Kijini turned out to be a very interesting corpus of early printed texts.
The support of Sheikh Saidi Suleyman who accompanied the team on this fieldwork should not be forgotten. He made important contributions in planning the trips and in meeting the sheikhs and shehas in the villages, and by spreading the importance of the written heritage of Zanzibar in the programs he made at the Zanzibar National Radio station.
