Vumba Kuu

Vumba Kuu was a Swahili settlement near the coast south of Mombasa, among creeks and mangrove-lined shores. Its stone buildings and pottery mark a community connected to the other towns of the East African coast. During the seventeenth century Vumba developed a distinct identity in the changing political world of the coast, where local rulers and merchants negotiated alliances with neighbouring ports and overseas powers.