East Africa Through a Thousand Years

This is a comprehensive account of East African history from AD 1000 to modern times. The text deals with the origins and movements of the peoples of East Africa and the development settled kingdoms in the interior and cities at the coast; the advent of the Portuguese and later the Omanis; the Europeans, the Partition, and the settlers; the World Wars and the struggle for Independence, and finally the recent history of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.