The ngalawa is a traditional, double-outrigger canoe of the swahili people living in Zanzibar and the Tanzanian coast.

Travel to Zanzibar is usually by a flight from Nairobi to Dar es Salaam on the Tanzanian coast, followed by a 22-mile hydrofoil ride.

Omani Arab colonization of the Kenyan and Tanzanian coasts brought the once independent city-states under closer foreign scrutiny and domination than was experienced during the Portuguese period.

Several towns on the Tanzanian coast contend as Liongo's birthplace.

It has had requests to keep an eye on another 2,800 miles of undefended Namibian, Mozambican and Tanzanian coast.

Such a designation, they contend, would allow the local fishing to continue, attract tourists and prevent heavy commercial fishing, which has ruined most of the reefs along the Tanzanian coast.

Commercial fishermen working the Tanzanian coast have dynamited the waters to get bigger catches.

The closest major settlement on the Tanzanian coast, opposite to Stone Town, is Bagamoyo (to the south-west).

FEW ferry rides in the world can conjure up the wealth of expectations that arise on the two-hour trip from the verdant Tanzanian coast to Zanzibar.

Neolamprologus boulengeri is a species of cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika where it is known from the Tanzanian coast in the northern part of the lake.