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all the way from Oman. we have a small comunity in South africa of zanzibar origen, they were once british slaves. what the people usualy say is dont mess with the zanzis because you will have problems sleeping, & they are well know for "ayn" & stuff like that.
now we can see the connection. Zanzibar was ruled by Omaan for many years & there are also many ibadis over there.

Couple of things

Last time I checked Brits never took slaves from Zanzibar but rather Arabs took slaves from East Africa and Zanzibar was the Slave capital and Omani sultan moved his capital from Muscat to Zanzibar. So historically there has been an intermarriage between Omanis and Africans in the East African coast and Zanzibar in particular.

Brits went there to stop slavery and the shortest recorded war in the world was fought there between the Sultan and the Brits in which the sultan surrendered.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zanzibar