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Season 6 Episode 14: The Unstable 15th Century Part 1: Age of the Viziers Arrives

19 min • 28 april 2025

Today, we enter into an age of transformation. For a prominent period in Kilwa's history, the city and its many satellites will no longer be under the reign of the centuries-old monarchy. Instead, a new apparatus of bureaucratic elites will begin to exert control over the state, and eventual make the monarchy little more than a shadow of its former self.