In contrast to North Africa, East Africa was never subject to one wide, sweeping Muslim takeover. Islam came to the East African coast in many waves and at different times. There is no single date ...

MacDonald puts the timeline at between one million and five ... posing both challenges and opportunities for the inhabitants of East Africa," said HowStuffWorks. In addition, "the gradual ...

In East Africa a slave trade was well established before the Europeans arrived on the scene. It was driven by the sultanates of the Middle East. African slaves ended up as sailors in Persia ...