Fashioning Inland Communities: Trade and Popular Culture in Central East Africa

When viewed from the economic centers of the Indian or Atlantic Oceans, the Ruvuma region of East Africa, crossing an area that is now southern Tanzania and northern Mozambique, would look like a periphery. But the same factors that marginalize the region historically brought distinct opportunities. In Fashioning Inland Communities, Yaari Felber-Seligman traces the long history-from the first millennium CE into the twentieth century-of Ruvuma trade practices within a changing world. Felber-...