The Rise and Fall of Swahili States
The Rise and Fall of Swahili States

Author: Chapurukha Makokha Kusimba

Publisher: Altamira Press

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 248

ISBN-13:

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The Swahili civilization was a fascinating and complex system_a group of advanced cultures with large economic networks, international maritime trade, and urban sophistication. This book documents the growth of Swahili civilization on the eastern coast of Africa, from 100 B.C. to the time of European colonialism in the sixteenth century. Using archaeological, anthropological, and historical information, Chapurukha M. Kusimba describes the origins of this unique and powerful culture, including its Islamic components, architecture, language, and trading systems. Incorporating the results of his own surveys and excavations, Kusimba provides us with a remarkable African-derived study of the rise and collapse of societies on the Swahili Coast.

Sheng
Sheng

Author: Chege J. Githiora

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1847012078

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Of interest to linguists, artists, ma-youth, scholars of urban studies, educationalists, policy makers and language planners who are grappling with the challenges of multilingualism and language of education in Kenya.

The World of the Swahili
The World of the Swahili

Author: John Middleton

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 1992-01-01

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 9780300060805

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The Swahili of East Africa have a long and distinctive history as a literate, Muslim, urban, and mercantile society. This book presents an anthropological account of the Swahili and offers an original analysis of their little-understood and unusual culture.

The Zimbabwe Culture
The Zimbabwe Culture

Author: Innocent Pikirayi

Publisher: Rowman Altamira

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 9780759100916

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Since the monumental architecture of the Zimbabwe Plateau first became known to Westerners in the 16th century, speculation about the people that created it has been continuous and inventive. Tales of strongholds in the interior were taken home by the first Portuguese chroniclers of the Swahili coast, and their narratives became part of the geographic lore of the 17th and 18th centuries. In the mid-19th century, the lore was spun into fantastic and mysterious yarns about long-lost riches that lured adventurers and traders. Pikirayi (history, U. of Zimbabwe) aims to set the record straight by examining the growth of precolonial states on the plateau and adjacent regions, with a focus on the their historical and cultural development during the second millennium AD. c. Book News Inc.

The Swahili
The Swahili

Author: Alamin M. Mazrui

Publisher: Africa Research and Publications

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13:

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An indepth look at Swahili culture, language and the people

Contemporary Issues in Swahili Ethnography
Contemporary Issues in Swahili Ethnography

Author: Iain Walker

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-11

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1315280833

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The term ‘Swahili’ describes the Muslim peoples of the East African coast, speakers of Kiswahili or closely related languages, who have historically filled roles as middlemen and merchants, the cosmopolitan products of a trading economy between Africa and the Indian Ocean world. This collection brings together anthropologists working on the greater Swahili world and the issues it confronts, dealing with societies from southern Somalia, northern Mozambique and the Comoro Islands, to Zanzibar and Mafia. The authors discuss a range of contemporary issues such as the shifting roles of Islam on the mainland coast; consumerism, conservation, memory and belonging in Zanzibar; how a Muslim society deals with HIV/AIDS; social change, development and political strategies in the Comoros; and Swahili women in London. The diversity of these themes reflects the diversity of the Swahili world itself: despite a cohesive cultural identity built upon shared practices, religious beliefs and language, the challenges facing Swahili people are multiple and complex. This book comprises articles originally published in the Journal of Eastern African Studies along with some new chapters.

Making Identity on the Swahili Coast
Making Identity on the Swahili Coast

Author: Steven Fabian

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-11-07

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 1108492045

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A re-examination of the historical development of urban identity and community along the Swahili Coast.

World History
World History

Author: Eugene Berger

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages:

ISBN-13:

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Annotation World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. Authored by six USG faculty members with advance degrees in History, this textbook offers up-to-date original scholarship. It covers such cultures, states, and societies as Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Israel, Dynastic Egypt, India's Classical Age, the Dynasties of China, Archaic Greece, the Roman Empire, Islam, Medieval Africa, the Americas, and the Khanates of Central Asia. It includes 350 high-quality images and maps, chronologies, and learning questions to help guide student learning. Its digital nature allows students to follow links to applicable sources and videos, expanding their educational experience beyond the textbook. It provides a new and free alternative to traditional textbooks, making World History an invaluable resource in our modern age of technology and advancement.

Creolization and Pidginization in Contexts of Postcolonial Diversity
Creolization and Pidginization in Contexts of Postcolonial Diversity

Author:

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2018-02-27

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 9004363394

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This book deals with creolization and pidginization of language, culture and identity and makes use of interdisciplinary approaches developed in the study of the latter. Creolization and pidginization are conceptualized and investigated as specific social processes in the course of which new common languages, socio-cultural practices and identifications are developed under distinct social and political conditions and in different historical and local contexts of diversity. The contributions show that creolization and pidginization are important strategies to deal with identity and difference in a world in which diversity is closely linked with inequalities that relate to specific group memberships, colonial legacies and social norms and values.

The Swahili
The Swahili

Author: Derek Nurse

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780812212075

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"As an introduction to how the history of an African society can be reconstructed from largely nonliterate sources, and to the Swahili in particular, . . . a model work."—International Journal of African Historical Studies