Swahili State and Society
Author: Ali A. Mazrui
Publisher: East African Publishers
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9789966468239
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ali A. Mazrui
Publisher: East African Publishers
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9789966468239
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Dainess Mashiku Maganda
Publisher: Adonis & Abbey Publishers Ltd
Published: 2014-03-22
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 191223470X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →History is a testament to what happened to a people or a place. It shows how things were and their transformation while explaining why the changes happened. Not only does history allow human beings to trace their trajectory in dealing with specific issues they face in the affairs of making a living, it also highlights movements between people around the world while showing their role in creating systems still in place today. History reveals to us major contributors of the trading systems along the east coast of Africa, documenting the role of the Swahili people and their interactions with different people of the world.The Swahili People and Their Language discusses ways in which the Swahili people came to occupy a prominent position in the world's trading system and how they lost their wealth through their contact with the outside world. The book highlights the strategic position occupied by the Swahili people, their natural resources, their skills and their rich cultural mix and how the contact with the outside world played a major influence that is clearly noticeable to date. The book contributes to the on-going discussion about Africans and their participation in today's development and reminds readers that the creation of the current economic, social and political situation of the Swahili people mirrors the history and positioning of many other formerly independent societies that became colonized nation-states. The authors provide discussions that shade light on critical questions such as: Who are the Swahili people and why are they important? Is there such a thing as a Swahili Civilization? If so, what is it and how does it relate to modern civilization? What place does the Swahili language occupy both in its history and usage on the continent and in the rest of the world?
Author: Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui
Publisher: Global Academic Publishing
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781883058067
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui
Publisher: James Currey
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780852557297
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The authors consider the spread of the Swahili language in Eastern and Central Africa against a background of interaction between church and state, and between economics and politics. North America: Africa World Press; Kenya: EAEP
Author: Derek Nurse
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780812212075
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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
Author: Thomas H. Wilson
Publisher: Franklin Watts
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9780531202814
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Discusses the history and culture of the Swahili peoples living along the eastern coast of Africa, from present-day Somalia to Mozambique.
Author: Chapurukha Makokha Kusimba
Publisher: Altamira Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780761990529
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Kjersti Larsen
Publisher: Nordic Africa Inst
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9789171066350
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Societies on the East African coast and of Swahili culture resist simplistic definition as well as the imposition of clear boundaries. Hence Swahili society and culture have a common mooring, and this book studies specificity in space and time within a broader comparative framework. This book examines how ongoing processes †ideological and material †affect relations within and between societies. The authors all provide ways to understand transformation in Swahili society, and how these are interlinked with ongoing political and economic processes, in East Africa as well as in the wider global context.
Author: Mark Horton
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2001-03-05
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780631189190
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This wide-ranging volume integrates documentary sources and contemporary archaeological evidence to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date account of Swahili history, anthropology, language and culture.
Author: Alamin Mazrui
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 0896802523
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Africa is a marriage of cultures: African and Asian, Islamic and Euro-Christian. Nowhere is this fusion more evident than in the formation of Swahili, Eastern Africa's lingua franca, and its cultures. Swahili Beyond the Boundaries: Literature, Language, and Identity addresses the moving frontiers of Swahili literature under the impetus of new waves of globalization in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These momentous changes have generated much theoretical debate on several literary fronts, as Swahili literature continues to undergo transformation in the mill of human creativity. Swahili literature is a hybrid that is being reconfigured by a conjuncture of global and local forces. As the interweaving of elements of the colonizer and the colonized, this hybrid formation provides a representation of cultural difference that is said to constitute a "third space," blurring existing boundaries and calling into question established identitarian categorizations. This cultural dialectic is clearly evident in the Swahili literary experience as it has evolved in the crucible of the politics of African cultural production. However, Swahili Beyond the Boundaries demonstrates that, from the point of view of Swahili literature, while hybridity evokes endless openness on questions of home and identity, it can simultaneously put closure on specific forms of subjectivity. In the process of this contestation, a new synthesis may be emerging that is poised to subject Swahili literature to new kinds of challenges in the politics of identity, compounded by the dynamics and counterdynamics of post-Cold War globalization.