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On Tuesday, 12th October at 5pm in Sever 113, Prof. Kusimba will deliver a lecture, “Innovation, Trade, and Leadership: State Foundings in Pre-Modern Eastern Africa”.
What is the relationship between technological innovation and urbanism in Eastern and Southern Africa? How has archaeology operationalized complexity in African contexts? To what extent did elite investment and monopolization of trade, technology, and other resources combine to create the Swahili state[s]? Professor Kusimba’s talk will evaluate the region's emerging archaeological evidence to assess how elite investment and leadership strategies coalesced to develop and sustain preindustrial urbanism on the Swahili Coast and inland Eastern Africa.
If you would like to listen over zoom instead of in person:
https://harvard.zoom.us/j/93813687516?pwd=azVMSldQZmcxY3I4a0JSOE1wWjNFUT09
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