The Swahili
Subtitle: Reconstructing the history and language of an African society, 800-1500 (Ethnohistory)
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1985
Language: eng
Format: Unknown Binding
Number of pages: 133
ISBN-13: 9780812279283
Subjects: History; Swahili language; Swahili-speaking peoples
First sentence: Dotted along the eastern coast of Africa from Somalia to Mozambique are a number of old Swahili towns (see map 1).