Kanji Gangji
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Kamadia Kanji Gangji
Date of Death
- 1900
Place of Death
Country of death
Place of longest stay
Profession or occupation carriedout for the longest period in life
- Merchant
Where-City or Country
- Parents
- Siblings
One of these may have been the house of Kanji Chianji, whose representative at Muqdisho was one Fadi Lashi. A major debtor of this house from Muqdisho named Abubakr-bin-Aood, who had been drawing hundreds of dollars of credit from them for three years and was involved with the liquidation of the Filionardi concession there, was arrested with all his goods and letters of credit while on business in Zanzibar.[1]
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The Khoja Ismaili Jamatkhana, Zanzibar-Built in 1905 by architect and builder Khaki Shivji Karachiwalla (Source: Plaque inside the building.) -
An inside door of the Khoja ismaili Jamatkhana, Zanzibar. -
Magnificent lobby of the Khoja ismaili Jamatkhana, Zanzibar. -
Stairs inside the Khoja Jamatkhana, Zanzibar. -
The always welcome kahawa coffee vendor at one of the famous Zanzibar doors, circa 1906 (photo credit Geordie Mott) -
Ivory Market, Zanzibar circa 1900-1915.The Khojas stand out in their distinctive headgear, "pagris" (credit photographer: Ali Pira Harji) -
Orphans with Trustees of the Monghibai Orphanage, Zanzibar, Photo: Sadruddin Khimani Family Collection, Vancouver, Canada. -
The elected & later appointed leaders, the Mukhi-Kamadia of the Khoja Ismaili community of Zanzibar.
- ↑ Muqdisho in the Nineteenth Century: A Regional Perspective Author(s): Edward A. Alpers Source: The Journal of African History,Vol. 24, No. 4 (1983), pp. 441-459 Published by: Cambridge University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/181253 Accessed: 23-11-2015 23:53 UTC
