"They saw the Community coming nearer to them, and I hope that will also happen with the people of Zanzibar. I have always heard about Zanzibar from hon. Sebtuu, from brother Bilal and hon. Mwinyi, but today I am happy that I am speaking from the country itself. That, in a nutshell, will help us to deliberate from a position of information about what this country and the people actually are like, so that when we are talking we do not only look at Zanzibar as a country that suffered from the effects of slave trade, but as a country with much more than we thought before."