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EU: Afrikaresa, Zanzibar - thatched village houses (1961)

1961 Zanzibar (Stone Town), Tanzania

Thatched village houses appear in this 1961 photograph of Zanzibar, a record of the island's traditional building style in the years before later redevelopment reshaped many such settlements.

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