Our Story …
The idea for the book came from the Village Ruins Committee on Songo Mnara, as part of interviews for the Co-Production and Community Heritage in Tanzania (CONCH) project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK, and directed by Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Sara Perry.
We are grateful for the input of Kilwa and Songo Mnara’s residents at all stages of this work. They were important to all of the excavations that have taken place at the site and it was their interest in the results that inspired this book. A huge thank you to everyone involved.
This book was created by Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Jeffrey Fleisher, with assistance from Lyuba Vinogradova. Illustrations are by Michael Sagikwa.
Funding for its production was given by the Global Challenges Research Fund at the University of York. It uses information from excavations at Kilwa Kisiwani by Neville Chittick during the 1960s and more recent work by Stephanie Wynne-Jones and Jeffrey Fleisher at Songo Mnara.
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