For over 1,000 years, African merchants gathered on the Swahili coast, known as Azania. For over a thousand years, African merchants gathered on the Swahili coast, once known as Azania ...

Dotting East Africa’s Swahili coast, Zanzibar, Lamu and Mombasa are synonymous with pristine waters and white sandy beaches. But many tourists are unaware that these UNESCO World Heritage Sites ...

In a study published today in the journal Nature, scientists show that people living more than 800 years ago on the Swahili coast had an intertwined African and Asian ancestry. This suggests a ...

From the aromatic coffee of the Ethiopian highlands to the spicy coconut curries of the Swahili Coast, African cuisines are numerous and diverse — and the world is taking note. We spoke to three ...

The legacy of the medieval Swahili civilization ... (3,200 kilometers) of the coast, and its merchants played a linchpin role in the lucrative trade between Africa and lands across the ocean ...

but he became fascinated by the thousand-year-old culture of the Swahili people, who live along the coast of eastern Africa and early on built cosmopolitan city-states. Through his 40-year career ...

The Swahili Coast is a narrow strip of land that stretches some 2,000 miles along the Eastern African seaboard — from modern-day Mozambique, Comoros and Madagascar in the south, to Somalia in ...

Analyses of ancient DNA from 80 individuals buried in medieval Swahili stone towns along the East African coast revealed that these individuals had both African and Asian ancestry. The findings ...

Next, we head for Mombasa, Kenya's second city, aboard a dhow – a traditional sailing boat from the Swahili coast. It was here, in East Africa's largest port, that enslaved people transported by ...