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This is a study of health-seeking behavior of pregnant Muslim women in Mombasa, Kenya. Early initiation and attendance of prenatal care has been shown to result in positive pregnancy outcomes. In addition, birth delivery assistance from a trained and well-equipped provider is ne…

Swahili ethnicity is highly porous and ambiguous, often reckoned more as a space to be entered into (or exited from) than an essence one might have. Nevertheless, because Kenya's Swahili-speaking Muslims comprise the core of a Muslim minority engaged in struggles for greater rec…

This study examines the struggle over architectural space and meaning in the city of Mombasa (Kenya) on the east African coast during the colonial period and the continuities between this colonial past and the production of social imaginaries in the present. Mombasa is an ancien…

This study focuses on how gender is constructed, expressed, and symbolized in everyday interactions of the Swahili people of the Swahili people of Mombasa, Kenya, through an analysis of their popular music, taarab. Swahili music has often been categorized by scholars as belongin…