Download or read book Feasts and Riot written by Jonathon Glassman and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1995 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1888, a handful of German adventurers bungled and attempt to conquer the Muslim towns of the East African coast. Their intrusion sparked a political crisis that led to the collapse of all civil authority in the Swahili towns.