The Swahili Coast(11th – 15th century CE): Stone Towns
This period the emergence of stone towns and increased coastal wealth and influence as trade expanded to the interior- as small towns grew to trade with and through the bigger ones, and also through the sea. There was more conversion to Islam and by the 11th century majority of coastal people were practicing Muslims. External […]
Said Ahmed Mohamed (1947-)
Said Ahmed Mohamed (1947-Present) is a Zanzibar-born poet, playwright and novelist with 67 titles to his name. He joined Dar es salaam university for his B.A in Kiswahili and English literature where for his excellent performance went on to Karl Marx university, now Leipzig university, in Germany for further studies in 1985. He later became […]