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Bikhole Ruin – Bungi


Bikhole Ruin – Bungi

Bi Khole ruins and estate located at the seashore in South District at Bungi about 23km from the Zanzibar Town. Bi Khole (Chole or Khwala) Binti Homoud bin Seif. Her father was a seyyid Said’ uncle. Her mother was Zamzam the Said Sultan’s daughter. Zamzam was sister to Salme and Barghash (later Sultan of Zanzibar, ruled 1870-1888). After the death of her father in1876, Bi Khole left her home residence Bububu to Bungi where she built her own new residence on a clove estate she inherited from her father sometime in the mid 19th century. Bi Khole passed away in 1917.

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