Lashar
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Lashar is a small village in the southeastern province Sistan and Baluchestan in Iran
The people of Lashar are Afro-Iranians. It is said that these blacks were brought to the Persian Gulf by Portuguese slave traders as early as the sixteenth century, they are called Ahl-i Hava (Followers of the winds) and worship the winds. [1] They are believed to be of Shangaan origin. [2] They are poor but native Iranians of southern Iran have been greatly influenced by African culture of these people, for example popular Bandari music which is considered to be an Iranian or Arabic music, is in fact African.
An African-Iranian village in Lashar
Entrance to a "toup", house of palm branches. Walls of these houses are covered with a mixture of straw and mud and their ceiling is covered by "daz" (fan palm) leaves.
