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A Language for the World
The Standardization of Swahili
By Morgan J. Robinson
Based on extensive archival research, this intellectual history of Standard Swahili—a dialect of the Swahili language written in the Latin alphabet—argues that attention to the intertwined processes of codification from 1864 to 1964 lends new perspectives on history, colonialism, time, and cultural representation in East Africa and beyond.
Foreign Language Study | Swahili · Social History · Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social · Eastern Africa · African Studies · Swahili
Gendered Lives in the Western Indian Ocean
Islam, Marriage, and Sexuality on the Swahili Coast
Edited by Erin E. Stiles and Katrina Daly Thompson
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Afterword by Susan F. Hirsch
A breakthrough study of the underexamined lived experience of Islam, sexuality, and gender on the Swahili coast.
Gender Studies · Islam · Religion · Eastern Africa · Indian Ocean Studies · African Studies · Swahili
The Story of Swahili
By John M. Mugane
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 world. From its embrace in the 1960s by the black freedom movement in the United States to its adoption in 2004 as the African Union’s official language, Swahili has become a truly international language.
Foreign Language Study | Swahili · History | Africa | East · Africa · African Studies · Swahili
Swahili beyond the Boundaries
Literature, Language, and Identity
By Alamin Mazrui
Africa is a marriage of cultures: African and Asian, Islamic and Euro-Christian. Nowhere is this fusion more evident than in the formation of Swahili, Eastern Africa’s lingua franca, and its cultures. Swahili beyond the Boundaries: Literature, Language, and Identity addresses the moving frontiers of Swahili literature under the impetus of new waves of globalization in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Swahili Origins
Swahili Culture and The Shungwaya Phenomenon
By James de Vere Allen
Kiswahili has become the lingua franca of eastern Africa. Yet there can be few historic peoples whose identity is as elusive as that of the Swahili. Some have described themselves as Arabs, as Persians or even, in one place, as Portuguese. It is doubtful whether, even today, most of the people about whom this book is written would unhesitatingly and in all contexts accept the name Swahili.This book was central to the thought and lifework of the late James de Vere Allen.
Foreign Language Study | Swahili · Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social · African History · African Studies · Swahili
