Eastern African Religious and Political Traditions: Short Annotations

Abstract: The importance of the East African littorals is to-day worldwide recognized, while this area remained for a long time a neglected one. The fluid space of East Africa was influenced by different forces of capital and by knowledge–power nexus during and after the colonial period. Many stories still remain untold inside this cosmopolitan interregional arena. The challenge is therefore great to try to reshape our understanding of East Africa in the Indian Ocean.