ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a research, which focuses on the role of technology and trade in the development of urban society in East Africa. The research explores what factors contributed to the rise of urbanism and what kind of relationship did those societies have with their rural neighbors from whence they arose and on whom they were dependent. It has been supported by a curator of African anthropology at the Field Museum of natural history in Chicago. Anyone wishing to pursue anthropology should be deeply committed to the simultaneous pursuit of science and the equal rights of humankind. To succeed in academia, one must have a thick skin and a willingness to take criticism and engage in scholarly debate, which is, after all, the most critical ingredient of scientific practice. Competition is healthy for science. No single form of anthropology, least of all indigenous anthropology, should claim that its way of seeing is ultimately the closest to the truth.
