Some indigenous trees and shrubs used by local fishermen on the East African coast

Mombasa is the main port for the East African coast, handling all exports and imports for the two territories, Kenya and Uganda, which are incidentally the worst plague centres in the area. A fair amount of the Tanganyika and Belgian Congo produce also reaches this port. As Mombasa is the receiving centre for all the export trade of Kenya and Uganda, it might be expected that plague, if conveyable in any form or by any means, would appear regularly with the arrival of some of the main crops which are usually considered to be associated with the disease in the interior. Maize and cotton are generally supposed to be connected with the incidence of plague, and it is of particular interest to contrast briefly the figures for the incidence of the disease at the port within recent years and the periods of export of these crops.

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Mangoes on the East African Coast

The East African Agricultural Journal ◽

10.1080/03670074.1949.11664716 ◽

1949 ◽

Vol 15 (2) ◽

pp. 98-99

Author(s):

W. R. Sethi

Keyword(s):

East African ◽

East African Coast ◽

African Coast

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Horn and Crescent: Cultural Change and Traditional Islam on the East African Coast, 800-1900. By Randall L. Pouwels. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987. 273 pp. $34.50

Journal of Church and State ◽

10.1093/jcs/30.3.610-a ◽

1988 ◽

Vol 30 (3) ◽

pp. 610-611

Author(s):

J. C. McCann

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

Cultural Change ◽

East African ◽

East African Coast ◽

Cambridge University ◽

African Coast ◽

Traditional Islam

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Central Malagasy

Journal of the International Phonetic Association ◽

10.1017/s0025100319000100 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 1-34

Author(s):

Penelope Howe

Keyword(s):

Central Area ◽

Capital City ◽

The South ◽

East African ◽

East African Coast ◽

Austronesian Language ◽

Regional Dialects ◽

African Coast ◽

Central Highlands ◽

Primary Basis

Malagasy is the westernmost Austronesian language and belongs to the South East Barito subgroup of the Western Malayo-Polynesian subfamily (Dahl 1988, Rasoloson & Rubino 2005). Dahl (1951) presents widely-accepted evidence that Malagasy is most closely related to the Indonesian language Ma’anyan of Kalimantan (South Borneo). The term Malagasy refers to a macrolanguage (Lewis, Simons & Fennig 2014), with many regional dialects distributed throughout the island of Madagascar, which lies off the east African coast across from Mozambique (see Figure 1) and has a population of over 22 million (INSTAT 2018). The central area of the country, or the ‘Central Highlands’, is a plateau of up to 5000 feet and includes the capital city of Antananarivo, with a metropolitan population of about four million. The dialect historically spoken in and around Antananarivo is called Merina, and it served as the primary basis for development of the standardized, institutional language referred to as Malagasy Ofisialy ‘Official Malagasy’ (OM).

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