Lamu gets new heritage tourism attraction

Lamu County has a new tourist attraction in Takwa ruins which has now been officially inaugurated. Takwa, a Swahili settlement on Manda Island in the Lamu archipelago flourished in the sixteen and seventeen centuries and was then abandoned.

Its occupation follows the prosperous 15th century, that spans the interesting period of the history which witnessed the abandonment of the many of the mainland sites and an entrenchment of Swahili culture on the offshore islands.