The legendary fort siege by the Mazrui Arabs and local ended the Portuguese supremacy in Mombasa and the Coast of East Africa. Some 100 metres away from the cannon barrels lies the wreckage of Portuguese ship — Santo Antonio de Tana, on the seabed. Fort Jesus curator Saadu Hashim and education officer Raphael Igombo say some containers of the vessel were recovered during a major recovery in 1975. Take a surveyNational Museums of Kenya, Kenya Navy and US Navy participated in the costly two-year recovery after the wreckage was discovered by a local fisherman. Experts say if the Portuguese had won the battle for Mombasa, Kenya would have become a Portuguese colony and the Coast becoming a Christian enclave.

Source: Standard Digital May 29, 2021 00:35 UTC