Today, more than a million people in East Africa still identify as Swahili (from Sawahil, an Arabic word meaning “people of the coast”). Kilwa was a sprawling city that grew from a collection ...

The Swahili Coast is the ultimate slow-travel destination ... iAfrica stands as one of South Africa's most enduring portals. In 2018, Africa.com acquired iAfrica, consolidating its position ...

For over 1,000 years, African merchants gathered on the Swahili coast, known as Azania ... Learn more in Africa's Great Civilizations with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., premiering at 9/8c February ...

When you land at the miniature airport in Lamu, a group of islands off the coast of Kenya ... the oldest and best-preserved Swahili settlement in East Africa and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Next, we head for Mombasa, Kenya's second city, aboard a dhow – a traditional sailing boat from the Swahili coast. It was here, in East Africa's largest port, that enslaved people transported by ...