Salme, however, wasn't Swahili; she was the daughter of the Sultan of Oman and a Circassian (Caucasian) slave. Oman, a small country on the Arabian peninsula, controlled much of the Eastern coast ...

Swahili stone towns traditionally have no central ... At Kilwa’s height in the early fourteenth century, its leader, Sultan al-Hasan ibn Sulaiman, constructed a massive palace called Husuni ...

Sometimes these attacks had been provoked by Swahili, like the Sultan of Kilwa, who under the banner of Holy War or jihad launched raids in search of cattle or slaves. Sometimes the settlement of ...

Swahili is derived from an Arabic word meaning ... Coin minted in Kilwa by the 14th-century sultan Sulaiman Ibn Al-Hasan. British Museum, London. Recent archaeological discoveries have shown ...