Caroline Sohie | Monument (2024)

Divination offers a way to make sense of a fractured reality. Bagamoyo draws visitors from across East Africa, renowned as a centre of divinatory practice. Folklore casts the town as an auspicious place—the site where a nation’s spirit first took form. Legends reach back to a precolonial past and to Julius Nyerere, who walked for days along the coastline to visit Bagamoyo’s sacred sites, tracing a path that intertwined his destiny with the nation’s emergence. These stories endure in the landscape, carrying the weight of collective memory and the unfolding of history.