World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean

Exhibition Website

May 2018 - Aug 2018

World on the Horizon: Swahili Arts Across the Indian Ocean is the first major traveling exhibition dedicated to the arts of the Swahili coast and their historically deep and enduring connections to eastern and central Africa, the port towns of the western Indian Ocean, and, given their circulation within imperial networks of trade and diplomacy, to Europe and the eastern seaboard of the United States.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.         



  • Various Media
  • Africa
  • Culture / Lifestyle
  • Various artists

Exhibition Venues & Dates