Port Cities and Intruders: The Swahili Coast, India, and by Professor Michael N. Pearson

By Professor Michael N. Pearson

Over many centuries the Swahili coast of East Africa had tricky connections with India, with the Islamic international, and with the peoples of the internal. there has been significant financial, social, and spiritual interchange. The intrusion of the Portuguese within the 16th century was once in simple terms the newest of many international affects. This examine in international heritage examines a specific time and position to teach the variety and complexity of cultural and financial contacts. Historian Michael N. Pearson starts with a dialogue of the makes use of and abuses of heritage within the area. He then units the level by means of developing the geographic and ancient relevance of the placement of the Swahili coast within the Indian Ocean. He explores the function of port towns and their orientation, relatives among the coast and the inner, where of the coast on the planet economic climate, and the impression of the Portuguese within the early sleek interval. in line with the author's personal broad examine and commute within the Swahili coast zone. Port towns and Intruders might be of curiosity not just to those that paintings on East Africa but additionally to historians of the early smooth interval and to comparative historians.

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Port Cities and Intruders: The Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the Early Modern Era (The Johns Hopkins Symposia in Comparative History)

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This, however, doesnot apply to the Swahili coast. 3Very simply,the Afrasian Seacan be identified as a unit for study,an area that, least at heuristically,has some unity,beginning at Sofala and extendingright around thecoast down to the southern tip of India, Kanya Kumari. Once the Portuguese arrive, the The S ~ a ~Coast i ~ ini the ~ ~ r a s iSea a n 37 African southern limit goes right down to what they called the Cape of Good Hope. Boththe Gulf and theRed Sea are included, and of course this area has intricate links with much further areas.

S1A I~enyan scholar notes that Swahili society is patriarchal, that is, the lineage of offspring goes t ~ o u g the h father regardless of the ethnicity of the mother (who,given the shortage of Arab women, was often African). ”82 This maynot be merelycrude racism. J. A Swahili story tells howas soon as one group, the Nyamwezi, getto a town and civilization they will be drunk for six or sevendays, and thenwill trade. At first, “Their idea of business is that for each tusk they should receive the whole contents of the [Indian]shop;but theIndians understand thebusiness”and beat them down mercilessly,84 A11 of these matters have interacted to make the Swahilisomething of an anomaly in recently independent and strongly ‘africanist”states, In all the states of east Africa they make up a small minority.

Oak does, Many senior historians have performed valiantly, have indeed put aside their own work and careers in an attempt to promote rational discussion. 8g We can only hope that thediscipline of history in India will be able to resist the pressure to become the plaything of politicians, as is too oftenthe case in dictatorial states, and more immediately that thedangers so clear in India will not be allowed to influence what is alsoa perilous situation in east Africa, and especially in Kenya. ~ e ~ ~ i nfrom t e d Carl von derDeclcen, ~ e i s ine O ~ s ~ - A( ~~ ~e i~~ kz1869).

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