Meeting Place Zanzibar: Ahmad ibn Sumayt and Harold Ingrams
Written by Anne K. Bang
The activities of Harold Ingrams in the 1930s Hadramaut are well known.. which constituted a major change in the history of that region. It is also well-known that Ingrams first came into contact with the Hadramı network while serving in the British Protectorate of Zanzibar in the 1920s.
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