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Swahili people speak the Swahili language. Modern Standard Swahili is derived from the Kiunguja dialect of Zanzibar. Like many other world languages, Swahili has borrowed a large number of words from foreign languages, particularly administrative terms from Arabic, but also words from Portuguese, Persian, Hindi, Spanish, English and German.
Swahili people speak Swahili as their native language, which belongs to the Bantu language family. Graham Connah described Swahili culture as at least partially urban, mercantile, and literate. [1] Swahili culture is the product of the history of the coastal part of the African Great Lakes region.
Kinjikitile was a member of the Matumbi people, living in what is now Kilwa District of Lindi Region in Tanzania (then German East Africa, later Tanganyika). The Matumbi practiced religious forms of folk Islam. In 1904, the then relatively unknown Kinjikitile disappeared from his home in Ngarambe. He returned after a few days and claimed that ...
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Nabhany was one of the scholar recognized for his key role in the development of African literature. [7] Nabhany was also credited with assisting in the collection of Swahili and Arabic manuscripts for the University of Dar es Salaam as well as the translation of Swahili Arabic manuscripts for the Hamburg University in Germany.
Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu tongue, Swahili has evolved into Africa’s most internationally recognized language. It is peer to the few languages of the world that ...
Shaaban bin Robert, also known as Shaaban Robert (1 January 1909 – 20 June 1962), was a Tanzanian poet, author, and essayist who supported the preservation of Tanzanian verse traditions. [2]
Hammie Rajab, Swahili novelist [8] Shaaban Robert (1909–1962), Swahili novelist and poet; Emily Ruete (1844–1924), Princess of Zanzibar; Gabriel Ruhumbika (b. 1938), novelist and short story writer [Killam & Rowe] Edwin Semzaba, novelist, playwright, actor and director; Robert Bin Shaaban (1902–1962), poet, author and essayist