In contrast to North Africa, East Africa was never ... intermarried with the people of the coast very early on, forming a new kind of coastal society, the Swahili, with their own architecture ...

The historical lands of the Swahili are on East Africa’s Indian Ocean ... to north and touches on the opposite coast, encompassing the heart of Africa. The historical lands of the Swahili ...

If you're planning a trip to East Africa, learning a few basic ... Arab and Persian traders on the East African coast between ...

The truth is that colonisation of the East African coast did not end ... DNA was similar to others in Africa. As a result, some modern people who identify as Swahili have inherited relatively ...

Yet universities around the world have introduced Swahili as a language of study, and South Africa is now bringing the language to its schools. Swahili is also the only African language to have ...

In contrast to North Africa, East Africa was never ... intermarried with the people of the coast very early on, forming a new kind of coastal society, the Swahili, with their own architecture ...

The people of the east coast of Africa were not to be as easily impressed by European ways as those of the Kongo. They had, after all, already been importing ceramics and textiles from India and ...

Lamu is a tranquil city home to an old town that is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, described as "the oldest and best-preserved ...

Kiswahili is a Bantu language native to the Swahili people who live along the Indian Ocea coast of East Africa. The number of Kiswahili speakers, be they native or second-language speakers ...

Africa's Swahili Coast, Maine's... Gaza and the moon make biennial most-endangered ... "As we all know, the Middle East is a cradle of civilization. And in Gaza, you have examples of those various ...

From the melodic rhythms of Swahili spoken along East Africa's coast to the Berber languages echoing through the mountains of Morocco, each language tells the unique story of its people and culture.