the culture and art of the people of eastern africa. to discuss these, we have contacted professor abdul sharif, he's a dist tanzania scholar of history, he has also played a crucial role in preserving zanzibar's cultural heritage. now, professor, the first migration of muslims is a period in which early muslims fled the persecution of the quraish tribe in the arabian peninsula into absenia on modern ethiopia. now, how did this migration impact on the spread of islamic culture in eastern africa? the facts that this was the first migration of muslims outside. arabia that becomes very significant because as far as zanzibar know the sahili cost people like to claim that in fact the people the muslims who came they came to zanzibar rather than ethiopia and i think this sometimes is sort of local beliefs but there are claims here in zanzibar itself that that islam reached zanzibar. before it reached medina, and there is even a mosk here which is saved to have been built a very long time ago, which i think some of this might be over excitement about it, but but it shows really how how high isl