The International Journal of African Historical Studies, May 1st, 2004
East Africa. Edited by Malyn Newitt. Portuguese Encounters with the World in the Age of the Discoveries. Aldershot and Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate, 2002. Pp. xxxii, 192; 2 maps, 12 illus., cloth, $79.95/£45.00.
This excellent collection gathers together fifty-two primary sources or excerpts from primary sources illustrating Portuguese activities in East, Southeast, and Southern Africa from Vasco da Gama's voyage of 1498 to the end of the Portuguese presence on the Zimbabwe plateau in 1695. Although some of the material relates to the Portuguese on the East African coast, and to shipwrecks o...
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