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2 unusual facts about Swahili people


Rose Mhando

Rose Muhando (born 1976 in Dumila village, Kilosa District, Morogoro Region, Tanzania) is an East African Swahili gospel artist.

Swahili architecture

Swahili architecture is a style of building along the eastern and southeastern coasts of Africa.


Marc Swartz

Swartz conducted extensive field research among indigenous peoples in highland Tanzania (the Bena), in Kenya (coastal Swahili, and on Chuuk atoll (formerly known as Truk) in the southwestern Pacific Ocean.

Mazinde

Johann Jakob Erhardt recorded the repulse of a Maasai raid in 1853 at Mazinde by an allied army of Shambaa under Semboja, son of Kimweri ye Nyumbai, and of Wazigua, Parakuyo and "Arabs" (most likely Swahili).


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