History is a testament to what happened to a people or a place. It shows how things were and their transformation while explaining why the changes happened. Not

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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 Afri

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The Swahili World presents the fascinating story of a major world civilization, exploring the archaeology, history, linguistics, and anthropology of the Indian