Lamu Old Town is a unique and rare historical heritage with more than 700 years of continuous settlement. Lamu can be accessed from Nairobi,?Mombasa or Malindi by air, road and sea. Kenya Airways, ...

Lamu Old Town is the oldest and best-preserved Swahili settlement in East Africa, retaining its traditional functions. Built in coral stone and mangrove timber, the town is characterized by the ...

Walk through the streets of Lamu’s Old Town and you’d be hard pushed to find a taxi. In fact, cars are banned for the general public. The East African island, perched placidly off Kenya’s coast, is ...

Not far from the coast of Kenya in the iridescent Indian Ocean lies an island called Lamu, very much the same as it was a thousand years ago. Since time out of mind, Lamu has been a bustling entrépot ...

See African Art Vertical File, VF -- Kenya, for vertical file copy at AFA. https://siris-libraries.si.edu/ipac20/ipac.jsp?&profile=liball&source=~!silibraries&uri ...

The Old Town of Lamu is located on an island by the same name within the Lamu Archipelago on the northern Kenyan Coast. The Old Town occupies approximately 16 hectares and consists of a buffer zone of ...

Women of Lamu, particularly Afro-Arab women, commonly acquire and wear gold jewelry. Not only is gold jewelry a symbol of status and wealth, but it is also economic security for the woman. How did ...

With every step, the sandy ground under my feet crunches with the sound of discarded plastic. Flimsy shopping bags hang from the branches of skinny trees like colorful bunting, and empty champagne ...