Mombasa was part of the Kilwa Sultanate before 1502. The independent Mombasa sultanate named Mvita (Swahili) or Manbasa (Arabic) was then established but was conquered by the Portuguese Empire during the 16th century.
Control alternated between the Portuguese and the Sultanate of Oman, before the establishment of the British East Africa Protectorate in 1887, with Mombasa becoming part of independent Kenya in 1963.
Even though there are no sources to explain in-depth details of Mombasa rulers, history books obtained by Wikipedia gives the following list as people who ruled ancient Mombasa.
1593 to 1596 Mateus de Vasconcelos
1596 to 1598 António de Andrade
1598 to 1606 Rui Soares de Melo
1606 to 1609 Gaspar Pereira
1609 to 1610 Pedro de Abreu
1610 to 1614 Manuel Pereira
1614 to 1620 Simão Pereira
1620 to 1625 Francisco Pereira
1625 to 1629 Marçal de Macedo
1629 to 15 August 1631 Pedro de Gambôa
15 August 1631 to 1635 Pedro Botelho
1635 to 1638 Francisco de Seixas e Cabreira
From 1638 to 1698, Mombasa was ruled by 23 different rulers under the Portuguese Colony.
The island was later taken over by Omani Suzerainty Wali (Swahili: Liwali) (Governors)
12 December 1698 to December 1698 Imam Sa‘if ibn Sultan
December 1698 to 12 March 1728 Nasr ibn Abdallah al-Mazru‘i
Portuguese Suzerainty under the Portuguese Colony later took over from 12 March 1728 to 21 September 1729.
Afterwards, the region was ruled by the Omani suzerainty, British suzerainty and Zanzibari suzerainty and later British suzerainty before it was handed to the British East Africa Association on May 25, 1887.
Mombasa was later incorporated into independent Kenya on December 12, 1963, and was among the larger coast province.
In the March 4, 2013, general elections, Mombasa was split from the coastal province into a county following a new constitution, with Ali Hassan Joho becoming the first governor of the county.
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