But Mugabe need not be concerned because his prediction is about to come true anyway. At a time when the Phoenicians sailed down the East Coast of Africa, and until Vasco da Gama visited Portuguese East Africa and David Livingstone traipsed across southern Africa, the land then known as Zambezia, focused on Islam, and today, with the Islamic militants now gaining a foothold in Kenya, is it not incongruous that history is about to repeat itself? – Donette Read Kruger, by email