Hunters of the northern East African coast: origins and historical processes

Africa ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 51 (4) ◽  
pp. 848-862 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Stiles
Keyword(s):  
East African ◽  
East African Coast ◽  
Historical Processes ◽  
African Coast ◽  
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Opening ParagraphThis paper has three related themes. First, the hunting peoples of the northern East African coast are defined; second, a period of origin of each group is proposed; and, third, the processes which resulted in their creation and persistence to the present are hypothesised and discussed.

Who are the Waswahili?

Africa ◽  
1971 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-236 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol M. Eastman
Keyword(s):  
Common Language ◽  
East African ◽  
East African Coast ◽  
African Coast ◽  
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Opening ParagraphThe question as to who are the Swahili has long been controversial. Captain C. H. Stigand is responsible for the most widely accepted definition,A Swahili … in the more confined sense of the word, is a descendant of one of the original Arab or Persian-Arab settlers on the East African Coast. In the broader sense of the word it includes all who speak a common language, Swahili.

The Arabs and Swahili Culture

Africa ◽  
1964 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 224-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyndon Harries
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
East African ◽  
East African Coast ◽  
African Coast ◽  
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Opening ParagraphSwahili culture can be roughly defined as the culture of the Swahili-speaking peoples of the East African coast whose activities show features of Perso-Arabian origin, features that are foreign to the culture of other Bantu peoples of East Africa. It cannot be described simply as Bantu culture plus Perso-Arabian elements, for some Swahilis have excluded from their way of life anything that can be labelled as Bantu; they may have Bantu blood, but their whole way of life is Muslim-Arabic.

scholarly journals The Relationship of the Cotton Crop to Plague, and its Role as a Vehicle for Rats and Fleas in East Africa

1935 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 388-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Isgaer Roberts
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Export Trade ◽  
East African ◽  
East African Coast ◽  
Cotton Crop ◽  
African Coast ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Belgian Congo

Mombasa is the main port for the East African coast, handling all exports and imports for the two territories, Kenya and Uganda, which are incidentally the worst plague centres in the area. A fair amount of the Tanganyika and Belgian Congo produce also reaches this port. As Mombasa is the receiving centre for all the export trade of Kenya and Uganda, it might be expected that plague, if conveyable in any form or by any means, would appear regularly with the arrival of some of the main crops which are usually considered to be associated with the disease in the interior. Maize and cotton are generally supposed to be connected with the incidence of plague, and it is of particular interest to contrast briefly the figures for the incidence of the disease at the port within recent years and the periods of export of these crops.

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