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 ...

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 ...

Excerpt from East African Coast, Select Documents ... forming a new kind of coastal society, the Swahili, with their own architecture, style of dressing and music. Muslim outsiders did not ...

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.

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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 ...