They told you East Africa was a backwater.
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A remote coastline. A forgotten shore. A place that history simply passed by.
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That is what they put in your textbooks. That is what they wanted you to believe.
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But here is the truth they buried.
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Over one thousand years ago ... right here on the East African coast ... while Europe had no running water and kings slept in wooden huts ... African merchants were sailing the Indian Ocean in ships so advanced, Europeans would spend centuries tryin