Chapurukha Kusimba, Associate Curator of Anthropology at The Field Museum, documents the growth of Swahili civilization on the eastern coast of Africa from 100 B.C. to the time of European colonialism in the sixteenth century. Kusimba has written this remarkable study using archaeological, anthropological, environmental, and historical information, as well as the results from his own surveys and excavations.

236 pages.
Paperback.
9" x 6".