Mazrui

Mazrui

The Mazrui were an Omani/Swahili clan that reigned over some areas of East Africa, especially Kenya, from the 18th to the 20th century. In the 18th century they governed Mombasa and other coastal places[1] and opposed the Al Bu Sa'id Omani dynasty that ruled over Zanzibar. In at least one occasion they attacked Stone Town allying with the Portuguese.[2]

When the British East Africa Protectorate was established in the late 19th century, the Mazrui were one of the groups that most actively resisted to the British rule, along with the Kikuyu and Kamba people.[3]

Footnotes

  1. ^ The Omani Ascendacy
  2. ^ Stonetown
  3. ^ The East Africa Protectorate



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