So who were the Swahili people, and where did their ancestors ... The truth is that colonisation of the East African coast did not end with the departure of the British in the middle of the ...

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 ...