Not all East African Slaves were taken to Arabia or India. Thousands mainly from Tanzania and Mozambique landed on the shores of Somalia and slaved in the banana and rice plantations or as house slaves as is the case of this Bantu lady slave working at a merchant home in Mogadishu city state. Today their descendants are known as Somali bantus comprising app. 1 million mainly farmers and laborers and some have maintained the Zigua language and culture of Tanzania and Malawi
