Pangani historic town is found in Tanga region, northern east Tanzania. The site is about 50km from Tanga town by road.

Archeological remains retrieved from excavation and built heritage found at the Pangani suggest that,   at least site was occupied back to 15^th. However, the modern historic town came to its prominence in the 19^th c, when, under nominal Zanzibar rule. By this time, it was a major terminus of caravan rout from deep interior. After the Sultan of Zanzibar signed treaties with Great Britain outlawing the ocean-going trade in slaves in 1873, Pangani became a center for smuggling slaves across the narrow channel to Pemba, in evasion of British warships. Later on, around 1888, Pangani was the center of an armed movement to resist German colonial conquest of the entire mainland Tanzanian coast. This gives the on the struggle for liberation from colonial domination.

Pangani emerged as a vibrant international trade hub soon after Sultan Seyyid Said shifted his capital from Muscat to Zanzibar in the 1840s, and brought the East African trade firmly under his control. Also, trading activities along the coast that were formerly financed only in Zanzibar shifted to Pangani town during the second half of the nineteenth century. At this time,  Zigua and Kamba emerging as key players in this trade by linking communities deep in the interior to the coast. The key participant involve in the caravan trade imported and exported trade goods such  as ivory, sugar, and copra, ivory, hippopotamus teeth, rhinoceros horn, maize, and ghee.

Several historical site in and around the town serve as the remainder of the strong Arabic influence and the later German and British colonial period in Tanganyika. The architecture of Pangani reflects the influence of Arabs, Asian, German, and the British historical presence at east Africa.  The historic town has about 19-20 stone houses. These include historical river front, the Asian quarters, Indian street, the German post office and custom house, the slave market, British hospital, and German cemetery. On the coastal area to the north and south there are ruins of mosque and tombs with earliest dates to 14^th and 15^th century. According to oral history, some of standing buildings have been connected with his slave trade activities