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6. The peoples of the Eastern Congo meet travellers and explorers
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In this episode we cover the mid 16th to early 19th century to relay the first meetings between the Arab-Swahili traders and the peoples living in today's Eastern Congo.
These traders travelled thousands of kilometres inland from the coast, and the languages and cultures began to fuse. Some trade was conducted but without established norms of relations hostility could always emerge from misunderstandings.
At the end of the episode we meet some new peculiarities. Amidst the turmoil the first European explorers and missionaries, including David Livingstone, precariously wandered the lands...
28 episoder
Manage episode 283834311 series 2850807
In this episode we cover the mid 16th to early 19th century to relay the first meetings between the Arab-Swahili traders and the peoples living in today's Eastern Congo.
These traders travelled thousands of kilometres inland from the coast, and the languages and cultures began to fuse. Some trade was conducted but without established norms of relations hostility could always emerge from misunderstandings.
At the end of the episode we meet some new peculiarities. Amidst the turmoil the first European explorers and missionaries, including David Livingstone, precariously wandered the lands...
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