The Swahili
Subtitle: Reconstructing the History and Language of an African Society, 800-1500 (The Ethnohistory Series)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: January 1985
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780812212075
Subjects: African history; Historical & comparative linguistics; Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies - Tribes; Sociology; Swahili-speaking peoples; Central Africa; East Africa; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; History; Swahili language
First sentence: Dotted along the eastern coast of Africa from Somalia to Mozambique are a number of old Swahili towns (see map 1).