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Author : Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui,Alamin Mazrui
Publisher : East African Publishers
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9966468234
This text examines the social and political impact of the Swahili language.
Author : Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui,Alamin M. Mazrui
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Language spread
ISBN : 0852557299
The authors consider the spread of the Swahili language in Eastern and Central Africa against a background of interaction between church and state, and between economics and politics. North America: Africa World Press; Kenya: EAEP
Author : Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui,Alamin Mazrui
Publisher : Global Academic Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 1883058066
Author : Chapurukha Makokha Kusimba
Publisher : Altamira Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015050287617
The Swahili civilization was a fascinating and complex system_a group of advanced cultures with large economic networks, international maritime trade, and urban sophistication. This book documents the growth of Swahili civilization on the eastern coast of Africa, from 100 B.C. to the time of European colonialism in the sixteenth century. Using archaeological, anthropological, and historical information, Chapurukha M. Kusimba describes the origins of this unique and powerful culture, including its Islamic components, architecture, language, and trading systems. Incorporating the results of his own surveys and excavations, Kusimba provides us with a remarkable African-derived study of the rise and collapse of societies on the Swahili Coast.
Author : Alamin Mazrui
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literature and society
ISBN : 9780896802520
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. These momentous changes have generated much theoretical debate on several literary fronts, as Swahili literature continues to undergo transformation in the mill of human creativity. Swahili literature is a hybrid that is being reconfigured by a conjuncture of global and local forces. As the interweaving of elements of the colonizer and the colonized, this hybrid formation provides a representation of cultural difference that is said to constitute a "third space," blurring existing boundaries and calling into question established identitarian categorizations. This cultural dialectic is clearly evident in the Swahili literary experience as it has evolved in the crucible of the politics of African cultural production. However, Swahili Beyond the Boundaries demonstrates that, from the point of view of Swahili literature, while hybridity evokes endless openness on questions of home and identity, it can simultaneously put closure on specific forms of subjectivity. In the process of this contestation, a new synthesis may be emerging that is poised to subject Swahili literature to new kinds of challenges in the politics of identity, compounded by the dynamics and counterdynamics of post-Cold War globalization.
Author : Stephanie Wynne-Jones,Adria LaViolette
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317430162
The Swahili World presents the fascinating story of a major world civilization, exploring the archaeology, history, linguistics, and anthropology of the Indian Ocean coast of Africa. It covers a 1,500-year sweep of history, from the first settlement of the coast to the complex urban tradition found there today. Swahili towns contain monumental palaces, tombs, and mosques, set among more humble houses; they were home to fishers, farmers, traders, and specialists of many kinds. The towns have been Muslim since perhaps the eighth century CE, participating in international networks connecting people around the Indian Ocean rim and beyond. Successive colonial regimes have helped shape modern Swahili society, which has incorporated such influences into the region’s long-standing cosmopolitan tradition. This is the first volume to explore the Swahili in chronological perspective. Each chapter offers a unique wealth of detail on an aspect of the region’s past, written by the leading scholars on the subject. The result is a book that allows both specialist and non-specialist readers to explore the diversity of the Swahili tradition, how Swahili society has changed over time, as well as how our understandings of the region have shifted since Swahili studies first began. Scholars of the African continent will find the most nuanced and detailed consideration of Swahili culture, language and history ever produced. For readers unfamiliar with the region or the people involved, the chapters here provide an ideal introduction to a new and wonderful geography, at the interface of Africa and the Indian Ocean world, and among a people whose culture remains one of Africa’s most distinctive achievements.
Author : Derek Nurse,Thomas Spear
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781512821666
"As an introduction to how the history of an African society can be reconstructed from largely nonliterate sources, and to the Swahili in particular, . . . a model work."—International Journal of African Historical Studies
Author : John Middleton
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300060807
The Swahili of East Africa have a long and distinctive history as a literate, Muslim, urban, and mercantile society. This book presents an anthropological account of the Swahili and offers an original analysis of their little-understood and unusual culture.
Author : Ali AlʼAmin Mazrui
Publisher : Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1932705376
Consists of 650 annotated entries covering Mazrui's books, dissertations, edited works about him, major essays in books, academic journals and conference papers. This work contains essays, including pamphlets, magazine and newspaper articles, and audio-visual recordings.
Author : Eugene Berger,George Israel,Charlotte Miller,Brian Parkinson,Andrew Reeves,Nadejda Williams
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-27
Category : History
ISBN : EAN:8596547679356
Contents: Prehistory Early Middle Eastern and Northeast African Civilizations Ancient and Early Medieval India China and East Asia to the Ming Dynasty The Greek World from the Bronze Age to the Roman Conquest The Roman World from 753 BCE to 500 CE Western Europe and Byzantium circa 500 - 1000 CE Islam to the Mamluks African History to 1500 The Americas Central Asia Western Europe and Byzantium circa 1000 - 1500 CE
Author : Jan Blommaert
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-16
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780748675838
This book is a thoroughly revised version of the 1999 edition, which was welcomed at the time as a classic. It now extends the period of coverage to 2012 and includes an entirely new chapter on current developments, making this updated edition an essentia
Author : Eugene Berger,Brian Parkinson,Larry Israel,Charlotte Miller,Andrew Reeves,Nadejda Williams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : OCLC:1066540011
Annotation World History: Cultures, States, and Societies to 1500 offers a comprehensive introduction to the history of humankind from prehistory to 1500. Authored by six USG faculty members with advance degrees in History, this textbook offers up-to-date original scholarship. It covers such cultures, states, and societies as Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Israel, Dynastic Egypt, India's Classical Age, the Dynasties of China, Archaic Greece, the Roman Empire, Islam, Medieval Africa, the Americas, and the Khanates of Central Asia. It includes 350 high-quality images and maps, chronologies, and learning questions to help guide student learning. Its digital nature allows students to follow links to applicable sources and videos, expanding their educational experience beyond the textbook. It provides a new and free alternative to traditional textbooks, making World History an invaluable resource in our modern age of technology and advancement.
Author : Sarah Mirza,Margaret Strobel
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1989-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253115140
"This is altogether a most worthwhile book, a fine example of a growing genre of African literature... " -- Choice "Mirza and Strobel let these women speak about their lives in their own words, and the results are wonderful.... This is an excellent book with which to introduce students both to Africa and to life histories... " -- American Historical Review This exploration of the lives of three Mombasa women reveals the complexity of Swahili society -- its ethnic diversity, the impact of slavery, and the varied reactions to colonialism and Western culture. They illustrate the rich interactions within the women's community, focused on family and festive or ritual occasions.
Author : John M. Mugane
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780896804890
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. How this came about and why, of all African languages, it happened only to Swahili is the story that John M. Mugane sets out to explore. The remarkable adaptability of Swahili has allowed Africans and others to tailor the language to their needs, extending its influence far beyond its place of origin. Its symbolic as well as its practical power has evolved from its status as a language of contact among diverse cultures, even as it embodies the history of communities in eastern and central Africa and throughout the Indian Ocean world. The Story of Swahili calls for a reevaluation of the widespread assumption that cultural superiority, military conquest, and economic dominance determine a language’s prosperity. This sweeping history gives a vibrant, living language its due, highlighting its nimbleness from its beginnings to its place today in the fast-changing world of global communication.
Author : Xavier Garnier
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781847010797
For more than fifty years a dynamic modern literature has been developing in the Kiswahili language. The political weight that Kiswahili carries as the emerging national and pan-national language of many East African countries places this literature, much of it in the form of novels, at the centre of heated literary debates on the social function of literature in the context of rapid global social change. Garnier provides new insights into the Swahili novel form with all its vibrancy and capacity for experimentation. Its obsession with social issues relates to larger, all-pervasive political debates running through East Africa: in its press, its streets, its public and private places. The novels both record and provoke these debates. Based on the study of more than 175 Swahili novels by almost 100 authors, Garnier brings to light a body of work much neglected by African literary critics, but which looks outwards to the wider world. Xavier Garnier teaches African Literature at the Universit Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle and is former director of the Centre d'Etudes des Nouveaux Espaces Litt raires, Universit Paris 13.