Oysters are usually harvested as per the market requirements, which range from six months from stocking but this again ...

Kiswahili, a product of centuries of cultural exchanges along the Swahili coast, embodies this reclamation. It is distinctly African yet adaptable, making it a resilient and forward-looking ...

THE sun-soaked archipelago of Zanzibar off the coast of East Africa should be your next holiday destination if you want a bargain holiday. Not only has TUI recently opened a number of new hotels, ...

I stayed at the Zawadi Hotel on Tanzania's island of Zanzibar. The all-inclusive resort included fine dining and snorkeling ...

Kilwa has always been vital in the East African economy. Located on the southern coast of Tanzania, Kilwa was once a vibrant trading town, a Swahili coast handling the commerce networking Middle East, ...

A study of transoceanic musical appropriation and Swahili ethnic subjectivity on the Kenyan coast. Sounds of Other Shores takes an ethnographic ear to the history of transoceanic stylistic ...

Lying close to the northern coast of Kenya, the archipelago lies ... on the island of the same name and stands as a well-preserved Swahili settlement which has earned it a spot on UNESCO’s ...

Visitors can wander through maze-like streets, where shops, markets, and traditional houses sit alongside huge palaces.

Nakuru and Kisumu, Kenya – Ogoyi Ogunde belonged to a proud family. His father had carved a home for their clan out of the ...

On March 31, the space where East Coast Autowerks once operated in Worcester ... spelled in keeping with Swahili phonetic traditions, according to the African American Intellectual History ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Dawn hadn’t yet broken over the minarets and blue-glass towers of downtown Dar es Salaam. Nor had the ...