For over 1,000 years, African merchants gathered on the Swahili coast, known as Azania. For over a thousand years, African merchants gathered on the Swahili coast, once known as Azania ...

Dotting East Africa’s Swahili coast, Zanzibar, Lamu and Mombasa are synonymous with pristine waters and white sandy beaches. But many tourists are unaware that these UNESCO World Heritage Sites ...

In a study published today in the journal Nature, scientists show that people living more than 800 years ago on the Swahili coast had an intertwined African and Asian ancestry. This suggests a ...

But viewing Swahili heritage as primarily African ... and Arabians and conversion to Islam did not change the coast’s African matriarchal traditions, confirms that this was not a simple history ...

People living on the ‘Swahili coast’ - the Indian Ocean coast of eastern Africa - have African and Asian ancestry according to new research on ancient DNA. Archaeologists believe that the ...

From the aromatic coffee of the Ethiopian highlands to the spicy coconut curries of the Swahili Coast, African cuisines are numerous and diverse — and the world is taking note. We spoke to three ...

While serfs toiled and knights jousted in Europe and samurai and shoguns rose to power in Japan, the medieval peoples of the Swahili civilization on the coast of East Africa lived in multicultural ...