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This course has been written for those who wish to teach themselves Swahili, but have little or no background knowledge of the language. The easy-to-follow steps are backed up by regular exercises which practise and develop the student's command of Swahili. The book covers all t…
Miaka hamsini ya Kiswahili nchini Kenya
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On the Swahili coast of East Africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone between the interior of the African continent and the Indian Ocean. Prita Meier explores this coastal environment and shows how an African mercantile society created a place of …
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This dissertation studies the functioning of large-scale systems of interaction and exchange on the East African Swahili coast by exploring their influence in the region around the town of Mikindani in southern Tanzania over the past two millennia. Evidence of connections across…
This work re-considers current descriptions of pre-colonial Swahili stone architecture by applying formal analysis to structures from the 'golden age' of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and the Swahili heartland regions of mainland Tanzania and Kenya. The results of this …
