The external walls of the flats are famous locally for their graffiti. The 1968 plan was accompanied by a propaganda blitz of posters, banners, and radio broadcasts to project its ideological vision of the cityscape. A widely circulated pamphlet in Kiswahili came with pictures of the apartments that supposedly offered "the workers better living conditions and [saved] them from living in lousy huts -- the poor state in which the colonialists left us" (Zanzibar National Archives).