"The Sultan's Shadow" is in part a history of that deadly trade, which was largely run by Arabs, and in part the story of the royal family that presided over Zanzibar as the island rose to power ...

A product of African, Arabian, and Persian cultures, Kilwa was an economic powerhouse that oversaw the flow of gold from its place on the Swahili Coast. The ruins of the Husuni Kubwa, the palace ...

Slideshow: The Sultan’s African Palace. From the tenth to fifteenth centuries, the East Coast of Africa was home to hundreds of trading towns collectively known as the Swahili Coast.These ...

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 ...

Swahili (peuple d'Afrique) Smithsonian Libraries Topic Legends Mythology, Swahili Folklore Légendes Swahili (Peuple d'Afrique)--Folklore 18.92 languages of sub-Saharan Africa Légendes swahili ...

Swahili civilization has differing origin stories. Genes offer new clues : Goats and Soda Genetic analyses back up what Swahili oral tradition has long held about ancestry of people from eastern ...

A SWAHILI VIEW OF ARAB-SWAHILI RELATIONS IN THE 19TH CENTURY ... Princess Salme, one of the daughters of Sultan Seyyid Said, quoted by Abdul Sheriff in Slaves, ...

Swahili mosques and tombs before the 18th century had a style quite unique to ... working in wood, stone and metal. The ruling classes (the Sultan, his family, and government officials ...