The eastern African coastal landscape

摘要: Eastern Africa’s ‘Swahili coast’is conventionally considered to extend from around Mogadishu (Somalia, 2.0333 N, 45.3500 E) in the north, to either Cape Delgado (10.8600 S, 40.6400 E) near the modern Mozambique–Tanzania border (for example, Kusimba 1999: 21) or Sofala (19.8333 S, 34.8500 E) in southern Mozambique (for example, Horton and Middleton 2000: 5, Map 1.1), and to include near-shore islands and archipelagos (for example, Lamu, Pemba, Zanzibar, Mafia and Kerimba), the Comoros Islands, and sections of northwest Madagascar (LaViolette 2013: 903, Fig. 62.1). As a geographical entity, the eastern African coast extends beyond Mogadishu up to Cape Guardafui (Somaliland) and the island of Socotra (Yemen), although in the contemporary political geography of the Indian Ocean the latter is considered to be part of Asia. Both localities were certainly connected to Swahili communities further …