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a) New foods were introduced through trade routes like maize, pawpaws, rice, groundnuts both
at the coast and in the interior.
b) Plantation farming increased in some areas, especially the clove plantations were slaves
worked.
c) The interior was opened to the outside world this later encouraged the coming of European
missionaries. Many European Christian missionaries came to East Africa to preach against slave
trade and to campaign for its abolition.
d) The trade routes became permanent routes and inland roads which led to growth of
communication networks.
e) Swahili was introduced in land and is now being widely spoken in Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda
and Eastern Congo.
f) Islam as a religion was introduced by Arabs and it spread, especially in Yao land and in
Buganda land.
g) A new race called Swahili was formed through intermarriages between Arabs and some
Africans.
h) There was growth of Arab towns such as Tabora and Ujiji inland.
i) There was emergence of dynamic leaders such as Mirambo and Nyungu ya Mawe in the latter
half of the nineteenth century.
j) Slave trade strengthened the large and powerful states, which could easily get access to guns at
the expense of small ones.
k) Slave trade led to a situation whereby power became centralized and no longer with the small,
local authority (segimentary societies) mainly to enable African chiefs directly control slave
trade.
l) Slave trade encouraged large-scale trade whereby contact was established between the trade
masters and indigenous/local population.
m) Africans were dispersed to other parts of the world e.g Arabia, America and West Indies. In
Africa, Sierra-Leone and Liberia were founded to accommodate former slaves from Europe and
America.
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