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The Swahili Coast · Apply
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For a thousand years, towns such as Kilwa, Lamu and Mombasa traded across the Indian Ocean. Monsoon winds carried dhows to Arabia, India and back each year. From this meeting of peoples grew the Swahili language and culture, with its stone houses, carved doors and poetry that is still recited today.
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