Tanzania, Feb. 16 -- By Anganile Mwakyanjala

Naseem Jahangir Hajj is a young Kenyan clinician, a health worker in the Kenyan government, running an HIV/ Aids programme in Kilifi. She had plans to take time off to visit the spice island since December last year but that didn't materialise until we rang the new year. "It was on my bucket list to visit Zanzibar, so I was really looking forward to it," Naseem mentioned.

Kilifi is situated close to Mombasa, a region a stone-throw away from Tanga in Tanzania, the proximity between the two neighbours and the shared language has played a vital role in trade but equally in tourism and movement of people, even the Maasai tribe are found on both sides of the border.

Naseem acknowledged that did p...