For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. A view of Fort Jesus Museum in Mombasa. [Omondi Onyango, Standard] Hundreds of visitors ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. A view of the Fort Jesus Museum in Mombasa. [Omondi Onyango, Standard] A light and sound ...

Later, in 1593, they built Fort Jesus, the biggest fortress of all in Mombasa, hoping to crush the opposition of the sultan permanently. Moving inland, the Portuguese seized Swahili trading posts ...

However, some buildings were exempted from the directive, including the iconic Fort Jesus, Mombasa Law Courts, government offices, and residences occupied by security personnel such as police ...

At the same time, Mombasa is a very historic place, with so much of that history still alive in the form of Fort Jesus and Old Town, where Swahili, Portuguese, and Arabic influences merge across ...