The Swahili Coast was the location of a sophisticated trading community along the eastern African coast from Somalia to Tanzania, between the 11th and 16th centuries AD. This bibliography has been prepared for use by readers of the About.com Guide to the Swahili Coast.
Sources and Additional Reading
Breen C, and Lane PJ. 2003. Archaeological Approaches to East Africa's Changing Seascapes. World Archaeology 35(3):469-489.
Chami FA. 2009. Kilwa and the Swahili Towns: Reflections from an archaeological perspective. In: Larsen K, editor. Knowledge, Renewal and Religion: Repositioning and changing ideological and material circumstances among the Swahili on the East African coast. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitututet.
Chittick HN. 1968. Ibn Battuta and East Africa. Journal de la Société des Africanistes 38:239-241.
Collins RO. 2006. The African Slave Trade to Asia and the Indian Ocean Islands. African and Asian Studies 5(3-4):325-346.
Elkiss TH. 1973. Kilwa Kisiwani: The Rise of an East African City-State. African Studies Review 16(1):119-130.
Etherington N. 2010. Historians, Archaeologists and the Legacy of the Discredited Short Iron-Age Chronology. African Studies 69(2):361-375.
Fleisher J. 2010. Rituals of Consumption and the Politics of Feasting on the Eastern African Coast, AD 700–1500. Journal of World Prehistory 23(4):195-217.
Fleisher J, and Wynne-Jones S. 2010. Archaeological Investigations at Songo Mnara, Tanzania: Urban Space, Social Memory and Materiality on the 15th- and 16th-century Southern Swahili Coast. Department of Antiquities, Republic of Tanzania.
Fleisher J, and Wynne-Jones S. 2011. Ceramics and the Early Swahili: Deconstructing the Early Tana Tradition. African Archaeological Review 28(4):245-278.
Fleisher J, and Wynne-Jones S. 2012. Finding Meaning in Ancient Swahili Spatial Practices. African Archaeological Review 29(2):171-207.
Kusimba CM. 1999. The Rise and Fall of Swahili States. Walnut Creek, California: Altamira Press.
Larsen K, editor. 2009. Knowledge, Renewal and Religion: Repositioning and changing ideological and material circumstances among the Swahili on the East African coast. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitututet.
LaViolette A. 2008. In: Editor-in-Chief: Pearsall DM, editor. Encyclopedia of Archaeology. New York: Academic Press. p 19-21.
Mafu S. 2004. From the Oral Tradition to the Information Era: The Case of Tanzania. International Journal on Multicultural Societies 6(1):53-78.
Pollard E. 2011. Safeguarding Swahili trade in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: a unique navigational complex in south-east Tanzania. World Archaeology 43(3):458-477.
Pollard E. 2012. Present and past threats and response on the east coast of Africa: an archaeological perspective. Journal of Coastal Conservation 16(2):143-158.
Pollard E, Fleisher J, and Wynne-Jones S. 2012. Beyond the Stone Town: Maritime Architecture at Fourteenth–Fifteenth Century Songo Mnara, Tanzania. Journal of Maritime Archaeology 7(1):43-62.
Prins E, and Clarke GP. 2007. Discovery and enumeration of Swahilian Coastal Forests in Lindi region, Tanzania, using Landsat TM data analysis. Biodiversity and Conservation 16(5):1551–1565.
Schmidt PR, and Walz JR. 2007. Re-representing African Pasts through Historical Archaeology. American Antiquity 72(1):53-70.
Schoenbrun D. 2006. Violence and Vulnerability in East Africa before 1800 CE: An Agenda for Research. History Compass 4(5):741-760.
Sutton JEG. 2002. The southern Swahili harbour and town on Kilwa Island, 800-1800 AD: A chronology of booms and slumps. Uppsala: Uppsala University Press.
Wynne-Jones S. 2007. Creating urban communities at Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania, AD 800-1300. Antiquity 81:368-380.
Wynne-Jones S. 2007. It’s what you do with it that counts: Performed identities in the East African coastal landscape. Journal of Social Archaeology 7(3):325–345.
Wynne-Jones S, and Fleisher J. 2010. Archaeological Investigations at Songo Mnara, Tanzania, 2009. Nyame Akuma 73:2-9.
Wynne-Jones S, and Fleisher J. 2012. Coins in Context: Local Economy, Value and Practice on the East African Swahili Coast. Cambridge Archaeological Journal 22(1):19-36.
Zhao B. 2012. Global Trade and Swahili Cosmopolitan Material Culture: Chinese-Style Ceramic Shards from Sanje ya Kati and Songo Mnara (Kilwa, Tanzania). Journal of World History 23(1):41-85.
