Ng'ambo

Ng'ambo is much larger and more modern than Stone Town, with office buildings and large apartment blocks, as well as slum areas.

[4] It was to be the start of a project to provide the entire population of Zanzibar with western-style apartments, located in ten new towns.

[5] The 1968 plan called for 9,992 apartments to be built in the Soviet-style on land created by the demolition of existing homes.

[6] A prominent example of apartment blocks built with the GDR aid in Ng'ambo is found in the Michenzani neighbourhood.

The new apartments were often reserved for ASP party members or doled out as favours and so many of those whose homes had been demolished were left without a place to live.