The Zimba and the Abrahamic faiths

By Gary Oswald. Mombaza (Mombasa) in the 1593 edition of Civitates Orbis Terrarum, not long before the Zimba assault. Art in public domain, courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Portugal arrived in East Africa (modern day Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya and Somalia) in 1496 as part of their larger plan to take control of the Indian Ocean and so the spice trade. They quickly conquered the existing states of the…