The remains of two great East African ports admired by early European explorers are situated on two small islands near the coast. From the 13th to the 16th century, the merchants of Kilwa dealt in ...

Taken from East African Coast, edited by G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville. By the 14th century Kilwa was the most powerful kingdom along the coast - situated on an island some 200 miles South of Dar Es ...

And in the port are many ships." Kilwa was the southernmost, and the richest, of a chain of towns and cities strung along the East African coast, running from Tanzania north though Mombasa in ...

Taken from East African Coast, edited by G.S.P. Freeman-Grenville. By the 14th century Kilwa was the most powerful kingdom along the coast - situated on an island some 200 miles South of Dar Es ...