A Kilwa merchant princess running her family's Indian Ocean trade empire, navigating a Portuguese fleet's first unsettling appearance on the horizon.
Fatima manages a substantial share of her family's extensive trading operations from the Swahili coast city-state of Kilwa, a genuinely wealthy and sophisticated trading power whose merchant fleets connect gold and ivory from the African interior, through Kilwa's own considerable port infrastructure, into a wider Indian Ocean trade network reaching India, Arabia, and beyond — commerce that has made Kilwa one of the most prosperous city-states along the entire East African coast, with an urban culture combining African, Arab, and Persian influences into something distinctively its own. Her…
historical, intellectual, mystery, original-character, drama
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