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Hip Hop Dancers In Nyirangarama Village - Rwanda by Eric Lafforgue 
Lake Assal Crater Lake With Salt Pans, Afar Depression, Djibouti

Credit: Eric Lafforgue 

Martha Jabo 

Swahili Fashion Week 2012

Photo Credit: Simon Deiner / SDR Photo

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Mohamed Bana

Swahili Fashion Week 2012

Photo Credit: Simon Deiner / SDR Photo

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Eskado Bird “Evolution” Collection

Swahili Fashion Week 2012

Photo Credit: Simon Deiner/SDR Photo 

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model walking in Swahili Fashion Week 2012

Photo Credit: Simon Deiner / SDR Photo
Old Mosque In Kilwa Kisiwani, Tanzania by Eric Lafforgue on Flickr.Kilwa Kisiwani was once the most famous trading post in East Africa. In 9th century the Swahili owner of the island sold it to a trader called Ali bin Al-Hasan. From 11th Century to early 15th Ali bin Al-Hasan managed to create a powerful city (Kilwa Kisiwani) and as major trading center along east African coast. He built a great mosque, established close trading links to interior of southern Africa .
Kilwa Kisiwani became the principle trading port on the Indian Ocean. Its wealth came from the exchange of gold and iron from Great Zimbabwe and other part of Southern Africa, ivory and slaves from mainland Tanzania with textiles, Jewelry, porcelain and spices from Asia.
By the 13th Century Kilwa had become the most powerful city on the East African Coast, exercising political and trading domination as far as Pemba Island in the north and the modern Beira in Mozambique in south . 
The outside world came to know Kilwa through Ibn Batuta who had visited Kilwa in 1331, and the Portuguese sailors who visited the place about 170 years after Batuta.
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