SWAHILI EMPIRE
East Africa to Arabia
and Asia. Swahili
traders, consummate
middlemen, sold gold,
ivory, and enslaved
people to merchantsA dhow plies the
waters off Kenya’s
Lamu Island. For
hundreds of years
these vessels linked
ports on the coast ofwhose ships arrived
on monsoon winds.
Such boats still carry
goods and people
short distances.
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