Princess Salme of Zanzibar – A 19th Century Feminist?
Right next door to the hotel where we stayed in Stone Town – Emerson on Hurumzi – is a small museum dedicated to the Princess Salme. The Princess was one of 36 children of the Omani Sultan, which at the time also meant ruling over Zanzibar. In fact, her father liked Zanzibar so much that under his rule, the capital of Oman was moved from Muscat to the island. Her mother was a ‘slave’ wife or concubine. Luckily for Salme,…