[h=2]Prehistory[
edit][/h]Zanzibar has been inhabited, perhaps not continuously, since the
Paleolithic. A 2005 excavation at Kuumbi Cave in southeastern Zanzibar found heavy duty stone tools that showed occupation of the site at least 22,000 years ago.[SUP]
[1][/SUP] Archaeological discoveries of a limestone cave used
radiocarbontechniques to prove more recent occupation, from around
2800 BC to the year 0 (Chami 2006). Traces of the communities include objects such as
glass beads from around the
Indian Ocean. It is a suggestion of early trans-oceanic trade networks, although some writers have expressed pessimism about this possibility.
No cave sites on Zanzibar have revealed pottery fragments used by early and later
Bantu farming and iron-working communities who lived on the islands (Zanzibar, Mafia) during the first millennium
AD. On Zanzibar, the evidence for the later farming and iron-working communities dating from the mid-first millennium AD is much stronger and indicates the beginning of urbanism there when settlements were built with mud-timber structures (Juma 2004). This is somewhat earlier than the existing evidence for towns in other parts of the
East African coast, given as the 9th century AD.
The first permanent residents of Zanzibar seem to have been the ancestors of the Hadimu and Tumbatu, who began arriving from the East African mainland around 1000 AD. They had belonged to various mainland ethnic groups, and on Zanzibar they lived in small villages and failed to coalesce to form larger political units. source ni wiki!
Hao kwenye bold ndio wakazi wahamiaji wa mwanzo wanaoelezwa kama watu wa asili wa Zanzibar, walikuwa ni Wahadimu na Watumbatu nao huko walikwenda huo mwaka!. Jee kunye wenyewe wengine halisi?. Yaani hao Wahadimu na Watumbatu nao pia ni watu wa kuja!.
Mwarabu alipokuja, jee nmnayo kumbukumbu kama alimkuta mtu?, alinegotiate na nani kuvipata visiwa vile na kuamua kuhamia juu hadi kuuhamisha ufalme wake toka Oman hadi Zanzibar?. Kitendo cha kusema hakukuta mtu si ndicho chema zaidi kuwa Mwarabu alivipata visiwa vya Zanzibar kwa kuviokota kama sadakalawe?!. Kama aliwakuta watu, wako wapi, au aliwafanya nini ambacho hakikuripotiwa popote na yeyote?!, ali wa completely wiped them out such that there is no one of them who lived to tell?.
Mjerumani alipokuja Tanganyika tulishuhudia ile mikataba ya kina Karl Peters na Chifu Mangungo wa Msovero!. Mlipata kusikia mkatana wowote wa Mwarabu na natives wa Zanzibar?!. Kuambiwa kuwa wengi wa natives wa Zanzibar waliopo sasa ni masalia ya watumwa, mbona ni heshma kubwa kuwa watumwa walikuwa binaadamu, tena wengi ni mababu zetu kutoka bara, hivyo nyie wenzetu wa huko, sisi bara ni ndugu wa damu na Waarabu ndio ndugu wa kuja!.
Mwenye details za Waarabu waliwakuta nani, atuwekee!.
Pasco.