1300–1450 AD). This long history of trade between the southern areas of Africa and the Swahili coast helped introduce gold, tin, bronze, and brass metallurgy into these southern areas around the ...

Arab traders began to settle among the Africans of the coast, resulting in ... (Hamed bin Mohammed) a Swahili Arab son of a trader, and grandson of an African slave. He was born in Zanzibar ...

Surrounded by a remnant coastal forest, away from the coastline, the abandoned city of Gedi was one of the most important Swahili cities on the East African coast from the 10th to 17th centuries.

The people of the east coast of Africa were not to be as easily impressed by European ways as those of the Kongo. They had, after all, already been importing ceramics and textiles from India and ...

The ten percent tariff that’s across the board right now is affecting us pretty majorly,” said Caroline Fisher, co-founder of ...

Lamu Old Town, located on an island known by the same name on the coast of East Africa some 350km north of Mombasa, is the oldest and best preserved example of Swahili settlement in East Africa. With ...

Zanzibar, the largest surviving Swahili town along the East African shore, was built on an ancient coral reef on the coast of Unguja Island, the main island of the Zanzibar Archipelago. Beyond its ...