A recent study by Dr. Ignacio Montero-Ruiz and his colleagues examined the provenance of ancient copper artifacts discovered on the Island of Ibo off Mozambique's coast. The study, published in Azania ...

The small luxury line is particularly known for sailings to remote places such as Antarctica, the Arctic, and islands in the ...

East African city-states (Kilwa, Mombasa, Zanzibar) developed thriving maritime trade across the Indian Ocean from the 7th century onward. These city-states featured cosmopolitan cultures blending ...

“It was the most intense cyclone ever recorded in this region of the Indian Ocean, highlighting the increasing significance of extreme weather events in the area,” the TMA report notes. Hidaya’s ...

Arab (and Iranian) Muslim slave trade across the Indian Ocean to the Middle East ... and after taking control of Kilwa [half way down the coast to present-day Mozambique] in the mid-1780s, diverted to ...

In the 12th century, the archipelago was conquered by the Arabs, who established the Sultanate of Kilwa in the east of the Black Continent ... called “the pearl of the Indian Ocean”, to visit the ...