why did the swahili culture develop on the east coast of africa
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East Africa's Swahili Coast Long before the first Europeans arrived in the area a loose confederation of coastal city states had developed along the East African coast which formed the basis of the unique Swahili culture of coastal East Africa. Three of these ancient ‘city states’ are now designated as world heritage sites.
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- The Gold Coast: 15th - 19th century. Little is known of the small African kingdoms in the region between the Tano and Volta rivers until the arrival of Europeans in the 15th century. Portuguese navigators, working their way down the west African coast, reach this area in 1471 and build a fortress at Elmina in 1482. But others follow fast.
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History of Sub-Saharan Africa Civilization in Sub-Saharan Africa began in the land of Nubia, which denotes the region around the segment of the Nile River in northern Sudan and southernmost Egypt.Nubia was the southern neighbour of ancient Egypt, whose territory also lay along the banks of the Nile (see History of the Ancient Middle East).ubian merchants acted as middlemen in Egyptian trade with Sub-Saharan Africa, and Nubian warriors often served as mercenaries in the Egyptian army. 23. Nubian civilization was born ca. 2000 BC, with the rise of the city of Kerma (the first Sub-Saharan city).
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Swahili language Swahili is said to be the easiest African language for an English speaker to learn. It’s one of the few sub-Saharan African languages that have no lexical tone, just like in English. It’s also much easier to read as you read out Swahili words just the way they are written. Someone who speaks Arabic may find it easier to learn Swahili because Swahili is a combination of words from Arabic and the Bantu-speaking communities of East Africa.
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- By the 12th century Swahili culture exhibited Arab and Asian cultural influences. A distinctive Swahili architecture had emerged, which reflected these influences. Houses made of coral rag and coral stone had replaced the circular mud-and-wattle buildings found in parts of inland East Africa.
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What is Swahili? Swahili is a Bantu language spoken throughout Eastern Africa by over 40 million people. It is related to other Bantu languages such as Lusoga, Zulu, Xhosa, and Ngumba, though is often quite different from these languages.
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Swahili Swahili Language Today. The Swahili language is currently spoken on the eastern coast of Africa in an area ranging from the Lamu Island of Kenya in the north to southern Tanzania. It is most commonly found in Tanzania, Kenya, Congo and Uganda.
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The Spread of Islam in West Africa: Containment, Mixing, and Reform from the Eighth to the Twentieth Century Fulanis and the Southern Saharan Sanhaja Berbers also played a prominent role in the spread of Islam in the Niger Delta region. Large towns emerged in the Niger Delta region around 300 A.D. Around the eighth century, Arab documents mentioned ancient Ghana and that Muslims crossed the Sahara into West Africa for trade.
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Swahili language It is a lingua franca of the African Great Lakes region and other parts of Southeast Africa, including Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Mozambique and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The closely related Comorian language, spoken in the Comoros Islands, is sometimes considered a dialect.
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- WEST AFRICA supplied the majority of the slaves that went to work in the Caribbean and America. In the 18th century a long stretch of West African shoreline was called the Gold coast because of the precious metal that was found there.
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The Spread of Islam in West Africa: Containment, Mixing, and Reform from the Eighth to the Twentieth Century While the presence of Islam in West Africa dates back to eighth century, the spread of the faith in regions that are now the modern states of Senegal, Gambia, Guinea, Burkina Faso, Niger, Mali and Nigeria, was in actuality, a gradual and complex process.
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Can the collection agency touch your bank account if your student loan is in default? A collection agency can only touch a bank account if you either give them permission or they have a court order. In order to get a court order they have to go through the full legal process including trial.The Student Loan on the other hand, like the IRS, does not have to go through the legal process.hey can't freeze the account initially. First, they must try to collect the debt from you. Then, they can sue you if you do not pay. If they win a judgment against you, they … can freeze the bank account. Sometimes collection agencies sue people for debt that is not their or that is past the statute of limitations.
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- The dense rain forest did not provide much room for farming. Some Bantu groups moved toward the east coast of southern Africa, where the land was more open and better-suited for growing crops. Other groups of Bantu-speakers migrated south into the dry, grassy west coast of southern Africa.he dense rain forest did not provide much room for farming. Some Bantu groups moved toward the east coast of southern Africa, where the land was more open and better-suited for growing crops. Other groups of Bantu-speakers migrated south into the dry, grassy west coast of southern Africa.
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- This is a section of the map of. showing the countries in which Swahili language is spoken. These countries include; Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi, Rwanda and Burundi, Somalia, and the Comoro Islands.As shown by the yellow color, in some of the countries, namely., , and. , the language is used in very small regions.hese countries include; Kenya, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Mozambique, Malawi, Rwanda and Burundi, Somalia, and the Comoro Islands. As shown by the yellow color, in some of the countries, namely.
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History of West Africa The Sahelian kingdoms were a series of medieval empires centred on the West African sahel, the area of grasslands south of the Sahara. 1  The first major state to rise in this region was the Kingdom of Ghana.
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History of the ancient Levant A second move out of Africa is demonstrated by the Boker Tachtit Upper Paleolithic culture, from 52–50,000 BC, with humans at Ksar Akil XXV level being modern humans. This culture bears close resemblance to the Badoshan Aurignacian culture of Iran, and the later Sebilian I Egyptian culture of c. 50,000 BC.
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History & Culture Brought to the New World and forced to work on the plantations of coastal South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina and Florida, Gullah/Geechee people have retained many aspects of their African heritage due to the geographic barriers of the coastal landscape and the strong sense of place and family of Gullah/Geechee community members.
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West Indies Culture The West Indies is an archipelago, or group of islands, that extends from the waters off south western Florida to the coast of Venezuela in South America-The Bahamas to Trinidad and Tobago.he culture is a unique combination of culture of Britain, France, Netherlands and Africa. The main religion of the country is Christianity. Art dance and music play an important role in the lives of the locals.
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- - the 3rd hypothesis dispenses with any idea of a migration from west Africa. It argues that proto-Bantu originated among people in the heartland who had spoken a west African related language. - in regard to the second question about how the Bantu speaking peoples spread so quickly and became so dominant over about a third of Africa, theories are also highly speculative and there is a great deal of debate.
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- II ABSTRACT This thesis studies the role of narratives, particularly stories that describe the origins of people, in the construction, maintenance and restructuring of society. The focus of this thesis is on the ‘stories of origin’ of the Basotho of QwaQwa, a small town in the Free State province of South Africa.he exact size of the population today has not been shown in the recent government census; emphasis has been on cities and large towns. QwaQwa is situated between the borders to the Natal province and Lesotho in the Eastern Free State province of South Africa.
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East African City States East African City States. From approximately 1000 to 1500 AD, a number of city-states on the eastern coast of Africa participated in an international trade network and became cosmopolitan Islamic cultural centers.
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Swahili language Swahili (Kiswahili) is the first language of the Swahili people (Waswahili), who inhabit several large stretches of the Indian Ocean coastline from southern Somalia to northern Mozambique, including the Comoros Islands.
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Bantu expansion From this core, expansion began about 3,000 years ago, with one stream going into East Africa, and other streams going south along the African coast of Gabon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Angola, or inland along the many south to north flowing rivers of the Congo River system.y the time Great Zimbabwe had ceased being the capital of a large trading empire, speakers of Bantu languages were present throughout much of southern Africa. Two main groups developed, the Nguni (Xhosa, Zulu, Swazi), who occupied the eastern coastal plains, and the Sotho–Tswana who lived on the interior plateau.
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North Africa/ Southwest Asia North Africa/Southwest Asia (also known as the Mideast) is an excellent example of a region: although is made up of countries on two continents, it is still considered a region because the people in the area share many things, especially religion. A region is the places in the world that share something in common.ecause of the mild climate and important rivers, North Africa/Southwest Asia saw rise to two cultural hearths. A cultural hearth is a place that comes up with a way of living (culture) that the places around it adopt. Around 6000 years ago, people settled in the Nile river valley.
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- The Mali Empire profoundly influenced the culture of West Africa through the spread of its language, laws and customs along the lands along the Niger River and extending over a large area that consisted of numerous vassal kingdoms and provinces.
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Ancient Africa The trade routes of Ancient Africa played an important role in the economy of many African Empires. Goods from Western and Central Africa were traded across trade routes to faraway places like Europe, the Middle East, and India.