Swahili was once an obscure dialect of an East African Bantu language. Today more than
one hundred million people use it: Swahili is to eastern and central Africa what English is to …

The present paper provides first insights into emblematic language use in Bunia Swahili, a
variety of the Bantu language Swahili as spoken in and around the city of Bunia inIturi …

As elsewhere in Africa, 1 the use of Arabic script emerged in coastal northern Mozambique
through contact with Islam. Judging by the number of documents uncovered at the …

In his article" The Paper Memory of East Africa: Ethnographies and Biographies written in
Swahili" 2 Thomas Geider (1953-2010) 3 has called for the reading of primary texts to be …

A research project focused on the cultural heritage of the Swahili-Arab in the Democratic
Republic of Congo has confirmed the location of their former settlement in Kasongo, one of …

Wheninthe1860stheOmaniandSwahilitrade… of what is now the Democratic Republic of the
Congo (DRC), they brought many changes in the area: new trade routes, new ways of …

The demand for translation into Swahili has increased markedly over the last decade due to
its emergence as one of the fastest growing languages in Australia. In large part this is …

This chapter deals with Arabic and ʿ Ajamī manuscripts in sub-Saharan Africa, which
emerged due to the expansion of Islam from the eighth century onward through trade and …

This article investigates the Arabic component of the Standard Swahili lexicon, aiming to
identify the Omani Arabic dialect which comprises the dominant donor of loanwords to …

There exists a close relationship between the use of a personal name as the means of
individuating a single person and highlighting that person's ties to an entire culture. Many …