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 […]
Shaaban Robert (1909-1962)
Shaaban Robert (1909-1962), born on the 1st January in Vibambani village, next to Machui 10KM South of Tanga was the greatest of the Swahili didactic-moralistic writers of the colonial period. He went to Msimbazi School in Daressalaam between (1922—1926) where he was one of the first Tanganyikans to pass the examination for a School Leaving […]