A History of the East African Coast

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The tropical coast of East Africa stretches from Somalia within the north, through Kenya and Tanzania, to Mozambique within the south and to the offshore islands of the Indian Ocean, the queen of all of them, Zanzibar. The folks of the coast, the Swahili, have experienced a wealthy and tumultuous history, coloured by political intrigue, international commerce, warfare, invasion, scandal and terrorism. Drawing on archaeology, the civic chronicles of the Swahili cities and accounts of the coast written by explorers, traders, missionaries and colonialists from as a ways afield as Italy, China and Britain, this book tells the tale of the East African coast from earlier period to as of late. Moving from the slave markets and clove plantations of Zanzibar, to the stone cities and sand dunes of the Lamu Archipelago, to the fight for keep an eye on of Mombasa and its great bastion, Fort Jesus, it tells the stories of Zanzibari sultans, Swahili merchants, Portuguese explorers and Christian missionaries in an epic history stretching back more than two thousand years.

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