Who are the Waswahili?
- 1 July 1971
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Africa
- Vol. 41 (3) , 228-236
- https://doi.org/10.2307/1158841
Abstract
Opening ParagraphThe question as to who are the Swahili has long been controversial. Captain C. H. Stigand is responsible for the most widely accepted definition,A Swahili … in the more confined sense of the word, is a descendant of one of the original Arab or Persian-Arab settlers on the East African Coast. In the broader sense of the word it includes all who speak a common language, Swahili.Keywords
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- Swahili Language HandbookLanguage, 1968