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Bagamoyo

Former seaport and trading settlement in Tanzania, 70 km/43 mi northwest of Dar es Salaam; population (2001 est) 68,000. Before the railways were constructed Bagamoyo was the chief starting point for the interior. It was once the centre of the Arab slave trade. Bagamoyo translates as ‘here we lay down our hearts’.

Sir Richard Burton, John Hanning Speke, H M Stanley, and other explorers set off into the interior from Bagamoyo. In 1873, local people brought the body of David Livingstone to Bagamoyo. The remains were disguised as a bale of merchandise because of local superstitions.



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2) During twelve months of fieldwork, I conducted interviews at villages across the region from Handeni and Turiani Districts in the north, at Sadani and Bagamoyo on the coast north of Dares Salaam, southwest from the capital into Kisarawe District, as far south in Morogoro Province as Kisaki, and west into Kilosa District.
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