AuthorWillis, Justin
TitleMombasa, the Swahili, and the making of the Mijikenda [electronic resource] / Justin Willis
Imprint Oxford : Clarendon, 1993
Connect tohttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198203209.001.0001
Descript 1 online resource (xiii, 231 p.) : maps

SUMMARY

A history of the city of Mombasa and its surrounding settlements from the mid-19th century to the height of colonial rule in the 1930s. Dr Willis sets out to place the island and town of Mombasa in its African context, incorporating the findings of historical and anthropological research


SUBJECT

  1. Mombasa (Kenya) -- History
  2. Kenya -- Politics and government -- To 1963
  3. Mombasa (Kenya) -- Ethnic relations
  4. Mijikenda (African people) -- History