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The [[Portugal|Portuguese]] conquered these trading centers after the discovery of the [[Cape Road]]. From the 1700s to the early 1800s, Muslim forces of the [[Omani Empire|Omani empire]] re-seized these market towns, mainly on the islands of [[Pemba Island|Pemba]] and [[Unguja|Zanzibar]]. In these territories, Arabs from Yemen and [[Oman]] settled alongside the local "African" populations, thereby spreading Islam and establishing Afro-Arab communities.{{sfn|Hinde|1897|p=2}} The [[Niger-Congo languages|Niger-Congo]] [[Swahili language]] and culture largely evolved through these contacts between Arabs and the native [[Bantu peoples|Bantu]] population.<ref>{{cite book|title=Tarikh, Volumes 1-2|date=1966|publisher=Longman|page=68|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qVvjAAAAMAAJ|access-date=6 December 2016}}</ref>

[[File:Deserto_Sudan_1.jpg|thumb|Afro-Arab man on a [[dromedary]] in the [[Bayuda Desert]], [[Sudan]].]]

In North Africa, Arabs historically had close connections to native continental Africans.