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- Mohamed discussed embroidery styles/patterns
- Introduction of
- growing up and going to school [[strikethrough]] in coastal community
- how his community has changed in 30 years

Audience Questions
Who uses identity of Swahili people and does it take precedence over identifying as a different ethnic group?
- Swahili are coastal people only from Zanzibar to Mozambique
- different groups in Kenya & various subgroups of Swahili

Tradition Plaster art done by Ahmed. Is it traditional to Kenya?
- comes from his village of Lamu in Eastern Kenya
- present in Zanzibar

- Moderator pulls out linen cloth and asks each participant to tell what it means to each of their cultures