‘ki denga pepo,’ or a disease characterized by the sudden cramp-like seizure caused by an evil spirit, applied to an outbreak in Zanzibar, 1870. The term ‘denga’ or ‘dyenga’ was used to name the disease on the east coast of Africa in 1823. It has been assumed that the term ...
The medieval largely autonomous towns and polities known as the Swahili states arose out of fishing and agropastoral settlements on the eastern African coast during the late first millenniumad6. First millenniumadsites on the littoral, beginning in the seventh century, were part of a shared materia...
Fig. 1. Map of the East Coast of Africa, showing location of Songo Mnara. The data from Songo Mnara show how the urban economy was structured through the houses, not as a parallel domestic economy but as the fundamental system of provisioning for trade. Similarly, the houses seem to ha...
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(governors). The first sultan to take up residence in Zanzibar wasSayyid Saʿīd ibn Sulṭān, who after several short visits settled there soon after 1830 and subsequently greatly extended his influence along the East African coast. On Saʿīd’s death in 1856, his son Majīd succeeded...
(1955; The German Conquest of the Swahili Coast, 1897 A.D.), by Hemedi bin Abdallah bin Said Masudi al-Buhriy, and Utenzi wa vita vya Maji Maji (1933; “The Epic of the Maji Maji Rebellion”), by Abdul Karim bin Jamaliddini. A novel, Habari za Wakilindi (“The Story of the...