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Document Details : Title: The East African Coast Subtitle: Some Notes on its History Author(s): KNAPPERT, J. Journal: Orientalia Lovaniensia Periodica Volume: 23 Date: 1992 Pages: 143-178 DOI: 10.2143/OLP.23.1.519169 Abstract : Although the grandly conceived joint colony if British East Africa lasted for less than half a century, yet its unity was no coincidence. It was based on a common culture, dominated inevitably by by the Bantu majority, but also deeply influenced by other cultures, such as Islam. East Africa began as the country where the great explores tarted out on their adventures: Krapf, Rebman, Burton, Speke, Stanley, Thomson, Tippu Tip and many others penetrated into the mysteriousinterior from the Swahili coast, accompanied by Swahili guides who knew the paths because it was literally their hunting ground. Immediately over the borders, in Somalia, in Ethiopia, in the Sudan, the traveller appreciates the difference in culture. |
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