Even then women made up a large percentage of the workforce which kept Stone Town running asa functioning city perched on the edge of the vast and at that time mostly unexplored continental wilderness that was old Africa.
Hata wanawake walifanya asilimia kubwa ya nguvukazi ambayo iliufanya Mji Mkongwe uendelee mbele kama jiji lifanyalo kazi lililotulia kwenye kingo za nyika kubwa na kwa wakati huo sehemu kubwa ya nyika ya bara haikuwa imejulikana ambayo ilikuwa Afrika ya zamani.