The latter, of course, is the oldest and best-preserved Swahili settlement in East Africa and a UNESCO World Heritage Site ...

This morning our Spotlight Around the World takes us to the West African country of Ivory Coast, or Cote d’Ivoire as Ivoirians prefer to say.

A system of thousands of ridges and canals across a floodplain in southern Iraq has long been believed to be the remnant of a massive agricultural system built by slave labor.

This realisation sparked a business idea that gave birth to Kenya’s first oyster farm,” says Ms Justin, the founder of Swahili Coast Farms. The love for the delicacy is still low in Kenya ...

Some of the choices are not terribly surprising. Climate change threatens Africa's Swahili Coast and 66 historic lighthouses on the coast of Maine. A natural disaster befell the historic city of ...

The two deals, worth some $2.5bn, were meant to boost Kenya’s creaking infrastructure. Yet the country’s MPs roared with delight on November 21st as William Ruto, the president, told them his ...

This Swahili-style biriyani reflects the influences of Arab traders who settled along the Swahili coast, resulting in a host of dishes with slightly different preparations and flavors from their ...

In East Africa's oldest Swahili settlement ... Everything is interconnected on the Swahili coast. Kilifi is where Kenya's creatives and remote workers have begun to settle, and the town hums ...

What Moju feels people get wrong about African cuisine is that cooking ... where the people of the Swahili coast reimagined it to suit their own tastes. “I think we are so used to looking ...

Next, we head for Mombasa, Kenya's second city, aboard a dhow – a traditional sailing boat from the Swahili coast. It was here, in East Africa's largest port, that enslaved people transported by ...