Listen to a BBC dramatisation of Sultan Seyyid Said's daughter ... (Hamed bin Mohammed) a Swahili Arab son of a trader, and grandson of an African slave. He was born in Zanzibar of African ...
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 mosques and tombs before the 18th century ... The ruling classes (the Sultan, his family, and government officials) lived in large houses, some several stories high. Their plates were ...
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 ...