Peter S. Garlake: The early Islamic architecture of the East African coast.(Memoirs of the British Institute of History and Archaeology in East Africa, No. 1.) x, 207 pp., 8 plates. Nairobi, London: Oxford University Press for the Institute, 1966. 95s.

1967 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-230
Author(s):  
M. W. Norris
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
East African ◽  
Islamic Architecture ◽  
East African Coast ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
African Coast ◽  
British Institute ◽  
Early Islamic ◽  
Oxford University Press

scholarly journals The Relationship of the Cotton Crop to Plague, and its Role as a Vehicle for Rats and Fleas in East Africa

1935 ◽  
Vol 35 (3) ◽  
pp. 388-403 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Isgaer Roberts
Keyword(s):  
East Africa ◽  
Export Trade ◽  
East African ◽  
East African Coast ◽  
Cotton Crop ◽  
African Coast ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Belgian Congo

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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