In this re-release of an EARLY classic, take a whirlwind tour of the Swahili coast and the economic and cultural exchanges over land and sea it has enjoyed for more than a thousand years, before zooming in on the very powerful, and very cool, medieval sultanate of Kilwa Kisawani.
Links
East Africa: Five Million Years of History (The Public Medievalist)
Early African History: fire, farming, Egypt, and the Bantu (Quatr.us)
Collins & Pisarevsky (2004). "Amalgamating eastern Gondwana: The evolution of the Circum-Indian Orogens". Earth-Science Reviews.
Richard Pankhurst, An Introduction to the Economic History of Ethiopia, (Lalibela House: 1961)
Early Global Connections: East Africa between Asia, and Mediterranean Europe (Global Middle Ages)
Kilwa Kisiwani: Medieval Trade Center of Eastern Africa (Thought.Co)
A lost city reveals the grandeur of medieval African civilization (Gizmodo)
Zhao B. 2012. Global Trade and Swahili Cosmopolitan Material Culture: Chinese-Style Ceramic Shards from Sanje ya Kati and Songo Mnara (Kilwa, Tanzania). Journal of World History 23(1):41-85.
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