The historical lands of the Swahili are on East Africa’s Indian Ocean littoral. A 2,500-kilometer chain of coastal towns from Mogadishu, Somalia to Sofala, Mozambique as well as offshore islands ...

For much of the Swahili trade history ... "Taking into account that Sofala was considered the outlet for the Zimbabwean gold, we considered the Limpopo River, connected to Sofala, as the most ...

Swahili is derived from an Arabic word meaning ... gold had been traditionally traded out of the port of Sofala, located in today’s Mozambique. Starting during the Shirazi’s rule, Kilwa ...

A genetic analysis of dozens of ancient skeletons from East Africa helps pin down the origins of coastal Swahili society. By Elie Dolgin A long history of mercantile trade along the eastern shores ...

Swahili people maintained matrilineal family burial gardens such as this one in Faza, Kenya. Chapurukha Kusimba, 2012 under CC BY-ND 4.0 A new analysis of medieval DNA has revealed that around the ...

"Something wasn't quite right." Sponsor Message Kusimba grew up in western Kenya and is not Swahili, but he became fascinated by the thousand-year-old culture of the Swahili people, who live along ...