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-Kanga - textile - cotton - specifically designed - w/ text message (to community, political, and individual,) - for Zwahili - significant piece of culture - (uses: carry children, things, etc)
- embroidery - unique ornamental design - esp. with young
- plaster work - 
- wood furniture 
- Malika - builder - Pokomo - women build huts; learn skills through the [[strikethrough]] woma [[/strikethrough]] maternal line -
- Dr. Yasin - long history in Kenya bec. of interaction bet communities along Indian Ocean - 42 ethnic groups - 
-add: colonial admin - Portuguese, Arabs, British.
-Islam - 9th century - even before it came to the Middle East.
- Connie Ali - coast very different from Nairobi -; esp. language -
- had to learn the different dialects spoken in the coast -
- Geography of the coast - sand dunes, beaches, coconut trees -
winterland - like the Mediterranean, -