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...plays up the voyages as a triumphant Chinese adventure, the journeys had a distinctly Muslim character. Zheng practiced Islam, as did Ma Huan, the main chronicler aboard the ships. It's likely they were guided to their many ports of call, such as Malacca, India's Malabar coast and Malindi in Kenya, by Muslim pilots of Arab, Indian or African extraction. "They were essentially following maritime routes that had been in use by people in the Indian Ocean for ages," says Wade. Many academics argue that the popular Arab-Persian tale of the Seven Voyages of Sinbad, littered also with...
...ATHLETICS Richard Adu-Bobie, Ottawa Charles Allen, Brampton, Ont. Courtney Babcock, Chatham, Ont. Tim Berrett, Edmonton Mark Boswell, Brampton, Ont. Pierre Browne, Toronto Diane Cummins, Victoria, B.C. Carmen Douma Hussar, Guelph, Ont. Dana Ellis, Kitchener, Ont. Malindi Elmore, Kelowna, B.C. Perdita Felicien, Pickering, Ont. Martin Grenier, Sherbrooke, Que. Anson Henry, Pickering, Ont. Priscilla Lopes, Whitby, Ont. Nicolas Macrozonaris, Laval, Que. Stephanie McCann, Surrey, B.C. Emilie Mondor, Mascouche, Que. Gary Reed, Kamloops, B.C. Brad Snyder, Windsor, Ont. Kevin Sullivan, Brantford, Ont. Achraf Tadili, Montreal Jason Tunks, London, Ont. Angela Whyte, Edmonton...
Chinese may go to New Jersey to wash dishes or New England to earn a degree, but they come to Africa to make fortunes and garner respect. Zheng He did as well. It was from Malindi, now a sleepy resort town a two-hour drive up the coast from Mombasa, that he received his most precious tributes: a qilin (or unicorn), a celestial stag and a celestial horse - now identified more prosaically as a giraffe, an oryx and a zebra. Since moving sight unseen to Mombasa in 1992, Li and his family have also taken Africa's natural riches - especially...
...three affable brothers who own six restaurants and a shark's fin and sea cucumber exporting business in Mombasa. Farther down the coast, Mohamed Oloya lops dorsal fins off great whites, then sells them to a middleman who transfers the shark bits to the brothers Cen. The Malindi-born fisherman is unsure why the Chinese crave a useless chunk of cartilage. "The Chinese know how to make money," he shrugs, "even from something that no one else wants...
...Salisbury, government officials were greatly heartened by the Senate vote. Ian Smith called it "refreshing and hopeful," and the black Co-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Kesiwe Malindi, declared, "I am confident that President Carter, himself a champion of human rights, cannot continue to ignore the welfare of Zimbabweans and the wishes of his own Congress." Some officials in Salisbury are convinced that Washington and London will insist on a high price for recognition and an end to sanctions. Among the possible demands: the complete and final retirement of Smith, who is believed to be angling for the powerful war post...