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About us
Mambo magazine is the online guide to culture, life and travel on the Zanzibar archipelago and beyond...
We create, promote, publish and develop. Mambo:
- Has created an online media platform for Zanzibar
- Promotes Zanzibar as a unique travel destination internationally within an exciting wider region
- Publishes quality, fresh content by professional journalists including features, guides, interviews, blogs, video, audio, photography for Zanzibar and the dhow countries
- Informs travellers of the unique Swahili history and culture of Zanzibar and Mafia and their undiscovered travel opportunities
- Highlights genuine community-run initiatives and eco-tourism
- Offers an interactive space for communication between local experts and travellers
- Will create local employment opportunities and develop media with Zanzibaris
- Maintains an independent and impartial editorial stance.
The ‘go-to’ site for travellers to Zanzibar, Mambo magazine is the most comprehensive and credible source of Zanzibari culture and travel information and inspiration on the web.
Meet The Mambo Magazine Team
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Professional journalist and Mambo co-founder Rachel has been coming and going from Zanzibar since 2001, when a chance meeting at a house party in London set off a long chain of events -
With a nose for a good thing, Zanzibar festival stalwart Rosie joined Mambo magazine on the marketing side in 2013 - bringing her charm and language skills with her -
At home in libraries and dictionaries, Swahili lover and expert Jono has joined Mambo on the marketing and sales side to grow the business -
Jaki Sainsbury bought a one way ticket to Zanzibar and didn't look back until she had founded its most loved online magazine -
A Swahili artist and 'culture man' with fair-trade philosophy, Omar is one of the original co-founders of Mambo -
Nipun, from Pune in India, joined Mambo as a photography intern in 2011 and took many of our favourite shots of the island, specialising in evocative landscapes and motorbike travel. -
Mumbai-based Shubhangi joined the Mambo team for a spell in 2011 to work on editorial assignments, including interviewing the late John da Silva, a prominent curator of Zanzibar's artistic and built heritage. More recently, she won a scholarship to work on her first novel at the University of East Anglia's creative writing centre. -
Saba, from Berlin in Germany, joined Mambo for an editorial internship in 2012 during which she wrote about everything from the Maasai in Zanzibar to the trend for African textiles on Western catwalks.
