28, 1982 THE MAKING OF THE SWAHILI: A View from t... THE MAKING OF THE SWAHILI: A View from the Southern End of the East African Coast This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section.

Swahili may date back several thousand years, but it developed into the language we hear today with the arrival of Arab and ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. The historical lands of the Swahili are on East Africa’s Indian Ocean littoral ...

The legacy of the medieval Swahili civilisation is a source of extraordinary pride in East Africa, as reflected in its language being the official tongue of Kenya, Tanzania and even inland ...