Time will fail me to review, among others, the chapters of the book on The Dhow; The Iranian Interval; The Era of Sindbad; Madagascar: ‘People who have come from the Sea’; Slave Trade and Slavery in the Indian Ocean: The Zanj Rebellion. Nor will space allow me to critique its sections on Piracy; The Superimposition of Roman Trade; The Persian Gulf: The Periplus' ‘Blind Spot’; Slavery in Islam; Hadhramaut: The Geography of Migration; The Swahili: ‘Oriental’, ‘African’, or Schizophrenic?; Mappilas: ‘Sons-in-law’ of the Monsoons and so forth.
wa siasa, huku siasa hii ikifungamana na masuala ya uchumi na utamaduni. Bila ya kuichokonoa mizizi hii kutoka katika siasa, uchumi na utamaduni ilikojificha, si tu itakuwa vigumu, bali haitawezekana kukithamini Kiswahili”. “Waafrika,” Masele katika makala hiyo amemnukuu mtaalamu mwingine