Arts & Humanities Journal|IJAH

Title: THE OMANI EMPIRE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF EAST AFRICA
Authors: NTUI, DANIEL OKORN; ABOH, JAMES A; PATRICK O. ODEY
Volume:4 Issue: 6
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1NTUI, DANIEL OKORN; 2ABOH, JAMES A; 3PATRICK O. ODEY 1. INEC, Akwa Ibom State 2. Department of History and International Studies, University of Calabar, Calabar 3. Department of History and International Studies, University of Calabar, Calabar
MLA: OKORN, NTUI, DANIEL, et al. "THE OMANI EMPIRE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF EAST AFRICA." Int. J. Arts&Humanities, vol. 4, no. 6, June 2020, pp. 163-172, journal-ijah.org/more2019.php?id=14. Accessed June 2020. APA: OKORN, N., JAMES A, A., & ODEY, P. (2020, June). THE OMANI EMPIRE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF EAST AFRICA. Int. J. Arts&Humanities, 4(6), 163-172. Retrieved from journal-ijah.org/more2019.php?id=14 Chicago: OKORN, NTUI, DANIEL, ABOH, JAMES A, and PATRICK O. ODEY. "THE OMANI EMPIRE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF EAST AFRICA." Int. J. Arts&Humanities 4, no. 6 (June 2020), 163-172. Accessed June, 2020. journal-ijah.org/more2019.php?id=14.
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Keywords: : Arabs, Oman, Sayyid Said, Swahili, Zanzibar
Abstract: The East African coast had extensive interaction with other regions and races in the world. One of these groups was the Omani Arabs who were pulled to the coastline of East Africa for commercial expansion, the serenity of the environment and the fertility of the soil. The Omani Sultan had ruled the empire from Muscat but later relocated the capital to Zanzibar. This paper relied on secondary sources to examine the impact of the Omani Empire on the economic, sociocultural and political development of East Africa. It was observed that with the interactions that first began along the coastlines of East Africa some coastal city-states like Pemba, Malindi, Mozambique, Sofia, Kilwa, Mombasa, and Zanzibar emerged. The Omani Arabs under the leadership of Sultan Sayyid Said introduced the caravan trade, custom duties, credit facility for investment, and the invention of a hybrid of language and culture- Swahili/Kswahili. Nevertheless, the innovations introduced into the east coast of Africa were intended to fulfill the commercial mandate of the Arabs leaving Africans as passive and/or unequal participants in the scheme of things, given the meddlesomeness of the Arabs in the internal affairs of the East Africans leading to conflicts that continue to hunt the region.
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