By the turn of the second millennium, Swahili people embraced Islam, and some of their grand mosques still stand at the UNESCO World Heritage sites of Lamu in Kenya and Kilwa in Tanzania.

Women were taken as sex slaves. Arab traders began to settle among the Africans of the coast, resulting in the emergence of a people and culture known as Swahili. In the second half of the 18th ...

Storing water was essential to the livelihood of the Swahili people, who flourished along the coast of East Africa from the seventh to sixteenth century A.D. Many still live there today.

Swahili is the national language of Tanzania, which is home to 59.7 million people. There are over a hundred languages spoken in Tanzania, but Swahili is spoken by 90% of the nation and is what ...