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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2017, Sultan Qaboos sent a delegation by ship to East Africa to strengthen cooperation along the Swahili Coast. In Zanzibar, the delegation focused on strengthening tourism, manufacturing, ...

"Something wasn't quite right." Sponsor Message Kusimba grew up in western Kenya and is not Swahili, but he became fascinated by the thousand-year-old culture of the Swahili people, who live along ...

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 ...