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Zanzibar's Majestic, the last cinema standing (feat. Nick Broomfield)

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Cinemas - The Demise of the Empire of Zanzibar

New government and nationalized movie theatres in zanzibar. Theatre owners allowed to continue to run their businesses, but they no longer owned the building. The palaces started falling apart. Cinemas just couldn't compete. So quite a number of them were turned into super markets. But some of them were even turned into churches,. Itill etra every year. And when there rains i fear that we'll wak up one day and we'll find the roof as caveri once the roof goes.

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