gallivant:
Zanzibar's Shortest Reigning Monarch

Sayyid Khalid Bin Barghash ruled for 2 days (25 August 1896 - 27 August 1896)

BlackKenichi:

What happened to him? Did he get his crappy Middle Eastern jaw smashed by a strong breeze?
He has the look of a typical, disgusting, needle d1cked Arab!

Sayyid Khalid bin Barghash Al-Busaid (1874 – 1927) (Arabic: خالد بن برغش البوسعيد‎) was the sixth Sultan of Zanzibar and the eldest son of the second Sultan of Zanzibar, Sayyid Barghash bin Said Al-Busaid. Khalid briefly ruled Zanzibar (August 25-August 27, 1896), seizing power after the sudden death of his cousin Hamad bin Thuwaini of Zanzibar who many suspect was poisoned by Khalid.[1] Britain refused to recognize his claim to the throne, citing a treaty from 1866 which stated that a new Sultan could only accede to the throne with British permission, resulting in the Anglo-Zanzibar War in which Khalid's palace and harem were shelled by British vessels for 38 minutes, killing 500 defenders, before a surrender was received.[1] Khalid fled his palace to take refuge in the German consulate from which he was smuggled to German East Africa(Tanganyika) where he received political asylum.[1] He was captured by British forces at Dar es Salaam in 1916 and was exiled to the Seychelles and Saint Helena before being allowed to return to East Africa where he died in Mombasa in 1927.

gallivant:


His reign came during a tumultus period.

BlackKenichi:
It's a shame that Zanzibar lost it's monarch and monarchy (I'm a monarchist). However they had to get rid of the Arab stooges. The Zanzibaris should have replaced their Arab monarchy with a SSA monarchy.

[b]Fort Jesus (Forte Jesus de Mombaça) is a Portuguese fort built in 1591 by order of King Philip I of Portugal (King Philip II of Spain), then ruler of the joint Portuguese and Spanish Kingdoms, located on Mombasa Island to guard the Old Port of Mombasa, Kenya. It was built in the shape of a man (viewed from the air), and was given the name of Jesus. In 2011, the fort was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, highlighted as one of the most outstanding and well preserved examples of 16th-century Portuguese military fortifications.

Between 1631 and 1875 the fort was won and lost nine times by the nations contesting control of Kenya. The Omanis took the fort in 1698 after a notable siege of almost three years. It was declared a historical monument in 1958. Today it houses a museum.

The fort was designed by a Milanese architect, Giovanni Battista Cairati, who was the Chief Architect for Portuguese possessions in the East. It was the first European-style fort constructed outside of Europe designed to resist cannon fire.

gallivant:


Zanzibar and much of the East African coast is very multicultural.The Monarchies rotated on different occasions according to who was in charge at the time.The area was very volatile because it was an important trade route and almost everyone from the Omanis, Ottomans, Portugeuse, Britain and almost all relevant powers of the time laid claim of the area several times and they could only control it indirectly by imposing and deposing several ruling families of all classes and colour. Anyways,this is the late periods of Swahili history.Before that Swahili City states were competing and raiding each other for centuries.The Swahili name for East African coast is ''kisiwa cha mvita'' which literary means the sea of war.

BlackKenichi:

I know all that. I don't trust the Arabs or the Portuguese.

gallivant:


Lol

I am going to take a wild guess and say it's because they have glass jaws?

gallivant:
Zanzibar's Shortest Reigning Monarch

Sayyid Khalid Bin Barghash ruled for 2 days (25 August 1896 - 27 August 1896)

Nabhani:


Interesting thing about this Middle Eastern fella is that his mother was a European slave and his father the son of a Ethiopian slave. His grandfather seemed to have a peculiar appetite for European & Ethiopian concubines.