Growing up in Muscat, the presence of the Al Barwani’s, Al Rawahy’s and Al Kindi’s were pronounced who spoke Swahili with many Omani’s of Zanzibari descent, given the Omani Maritime presence until 1964, when violence drove Omanis and Banian’s to find new homes back in Muscat, Dubai, Bombay, Portsmouth.

These wonderful transnational histories have been brought to the fore by books by Nathaniel Matthews and Anne K Bang.