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[QUOTE]Originally posted by markellion: [QB] This is just part of the article but it also talks about poisoning Portuguese and preventing them from learning about trails and mapping the interior. Now although these relations perhaps might have been mostly negative for the Africans, they did have ways to hold off the Europeans "Portuguese Conceptual Categories and the "Other" Encounter on the Swahili Coast" by Jeremy, Prestholdt [QUOTE]page 5 of article Portuguese administrators came to depend on Swahili-speakers. In the sixteenth century, several Portuguese factors even employed Swahili elites as political and economic advisors.[9] This dependence was not only born out of an ignorance of East Africa, but also as a result of the ease with which many Portuguese could interpret the Swahili world conceptually, materially, and religiously. The Portuguese found a familiar Islamic civilization on the East African coast and, able to effectively communicate within it through dialog and/or coercion, attempted to manipulate it for narrow economic proposes. [b]Yet Swahili-speakers, lacking military supremacy, used their paradoxically privileged position to impede Portuguese commercial relations with non-Swahili and, in some cases, even to further their own aspirations.[/b] Thus, despite fierce rivalries in Iberia and abroad, Portuguese familiarity with Islam and what they perceived as general Muslim material and social worlds precipitated close relations with the Swahili such that over the course of the sixteenth century Portuguese perceptions, language, relations, and investments in East Africa were filtered through the lens of Swahili society......[10][/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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