{"id":31885,"date":"2018-05-06T07:07:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-06T11:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=31885"},"modified":"2018-05-06T07:07:33","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T11:07:33","slug":"dan-shares-photos-from-journalist-trip-to-zanzibar-in-1986","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/dan-shares-photos-from-journalist-trip-to-zanzibar-in-1986\/","title":{"rendered":"Dan shares photos from journalist trip to Zanzibar in 1986"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Dan Robinson, who writes:<\/p>\n

Here’s a blast from the past that might be interesting reading for the SWLing Post.<\/p>\n

Back in 1986, just before ending my three year tour as VOA East Africa bureau chief, I had an opportunity to visit Zanzibar, with a group of journalists. Back then, Zanzibar was still under the socialist government in charge at the time, and was still attached to Tanzania’s socialist government.<\/p>\n

Zanzibar town was full of old structures, and clay\/stucco type buildings [see photo at top of page]–it was a wonderfully exotic place, with pristine beaches. The main hotel at the time was in poor condition — this was way before any of the extensive hotel development that the island has seen in recent decades.<\/p>\n

One day we were traveling across the island, but I made a point of stopping at what was then still Radio Tanzania\/Zanzibar. This was of course years before that station would become ZBC, which remains on the air today<\/a>, and that time the power was still far lower than the station we know today that serves some fairly wide sections of East Africa and up into the Gulf region.<\/p>\n

I hadn’t remembered snapping this photo, but found it recently while going through some old prints. This is what I believe to be Radio Tanzania\/Zanzibar as it looked back in 1986 [see below].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Another photo [below] shows old Zanzibar town (shot taken from just off the shore).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Two other shots [below] show a graveyard on Grave Island, off Zanzibar, with one of the stones belonging to someone named Henry Bodley Carpenter (click here for more info<\/a>) who served on the H.M.S. Briton and died in 1873.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>\"\"<\/a>Thanks so much, Dan, for taking the time to share these photos of Zanzibar with us. I imagine your work with the Voice of America took you to many corners of our wonderful planet!<\/p>\n

I still get a small thrill when I put Zanzibar in the logs! Thank you again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who writes: Here’s a blast from the past that might be interesting reading for the SWLing Post. Back in 1986, just before ending my three year tour as VOA East Africa bureau chief, I had an opportunity to visit Zanzibar, with a group of journalists. Back then, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[56,960,3,305,1936,288,43],"tags":[2635,2633,4120,7016,7017,7018,5487,5326],"class_list":["post-31885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-international-broadcasting","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-photos","category-radio-history","category-shortwave-radio","tag-dan-robinson","tag-dan-robinson-voa","tag-photos","tag-radio-tanzania","tag-tanzania","tag-zanzibar","tag-zanzibar-bc","tag-zanzibar-broadcasting-corporation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-8ih","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20057,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/wembley-stadium-a-superb-dxing-location\/","url_meta":{"origin":31885,"position":0},"title":"Wembley Stadium: A Superb DXing location","author":"Thomas","date":"July 22, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Clint Gouveia, who writes: As the designated driver, I found myself waiting for friends at the Beyonce concert at Wembley Stadium last Sunday [July 3rd], Not wishing to miss an opportunity and taking advantage of 8 stories of elevation (top floor of the car park!)\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Articles"","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Oxford-Shortwave","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Oxford-Shortwave.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Oxford-Shortwave.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Oxford-Shortwave.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/Oxford-Shortwave.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":33479,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/dan-records-the-final-transmission-of-radio-transmundial\/","url_meta":{"origin":31885,"position":1},"title":"Dan records the final transmission of Radio Transmundial Portuguese","author":"Thomas","date":"August 9, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dan Robinson, who shares the following notes about the final transmission of Radio Transmundial. 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