In reviewing the work of the BIEA this volume summarises the  history and development of Eastern Africa. Prominent subjects  include: the town of ntusi in the 11-14th cents, and the  background to the inter lacustrine kingdoms; irrigation  cultivators at Engaruka below the rift escarpment 300 to 500  years ago; the Siriwake livestock specialists in the high  grasslands until the Maasai Revolution; salt and iron industries  through the ages; the flowering of Swahili towns and their place  in the world of islam; Kilwa, the 14th century palace of Husuni  Kubwa and the Zimbabwe gold trade.

A Thousand Years in East Africa

History

Sutton, John E. G.

Africa

British Institute in Eastern Africa

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