Expanding the Heritage Narrative in N’gambo & Stone Town, Zanzibar: the ‘Upande Mmoja na wa Pekee’ Project
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Abstract
Zanzibar City represents over 800 years of development, expansion, and transformation, beginning as a fishing village in the early eleventh century AD. The city consists of two main urban cores. The old colonial town, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2000, features stunning buildings that blend Portuguese, British, Omani, and Indian influences, mostly constructed over the past 200 years. This area is known as Stone Town, or Mji Mkongwe in Swahili. Directly to the east of Stone Town lies the newer urban center, Ng’ambo, meaning “the other side.” Ng’ambo is characterized by Swahili dwellings and post-independence modernist social housing and public facilities. The two parts of Zanzibar City were originally separated by a natural creek, which was later filled in and converted into parks and a major road, reinforcing a physical division between Ng’ambo and Stone Town. The designation of Stone Town as the sole UNESCO World Heritage site on the island has exacerbated this division, marginalizing other forms of intangible and tangible pre-colonial and post-colonial heritage. This paper proposes a new approach to Zanzibar City’s heritage narrative, one that embraces its pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial built heritage. It will examine the urban evolution of Stone Town and Ng’ambo, critique UNESCO’s problematic heritage narrative, and discuss the methodology, goals, preliminary outcomes, and prospects of the first phase of the joint research project Upande Mmoja na wa Pekee (“The One and Only Side” in Swahili). This project seeks to reimagine public spaces and repurpose unused public buildings to express a more inclusive heritage narrative.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.017 | 0.007 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".