The legacy of the medieval Swahili civilisation is a source of extraordinary ... towns hugged 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometres) of the coast, and its merchants played a linchpin role in the lucrative ...

The Portuguese became in many ways Africanised, while the people of the Swahili coast retained their culture with remarkably little change over the centuries. Click here to listen to Paul ...

Sometimes these attacks had been provoked by Swahili, like the Sultan of ... From the 15th century onwards, people on the East African coast were under commercial and political pressure from ...