Popular music in the past could be divided in two parts namely the Swahili sound and the Congolese sound. Nowadays‚ newer varieties of music have arisen which are mostly derivatives of modern hip hop‚ rap and seggea. Furthermore‚ we have the Kenyan literature. Kenyan literature describes literature which comes from the African country of Kenya. Kenya has a long oral and written literary tradition‚ primarily in English and Swahili‚ the two official language of the country. One of the best known pieces
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The Indian Ocean is one of the oldest trade routes between Africa and Asia. During the early days of Indian Ocean trade‚ the buying and selling of goods took place only between the Swahili people living in East Africa and Arabs from Asia. Indian Ocean trade was made easy by the monsoon winds that circulated between Asia and the Eastern coast. These winds blew north to the south and from the south back to the north in a circular fashion. These winds change direction with the change of seasons. In
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very significant. This trade began in 300 B.C.E. This trade’s development including also the continuities and changes were knowledge of the monsoon‚ compass‚ astrolabes‚ better ship buildings‚ the spread of Dar Al-Islam trade centers in calculated Swahili city states and trade of luxury goods between Arabs‚ Africans and Indians. The currents and monsoons an important role and affected how the trade went about. The currents at first blew the traders off course but they later on the traders learned the
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account both the sources of the documents and the authors’ points of view. Essay Prompt Compare the Hansa and Swahili trading systems and determined what accounted for their differences. Based on the following documents‚ discuss Post-Classical interregional trading systems. What types of additional documentation would help explain the differences between the Hansa and the Swahili? Historical Background During the Post-Classical era from 1000 to 1450 C.E.‚ cities‚ which relied heavily on
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Diseased slaves were transported through the Sahara‚ which helped spread major diseases such as small pox and the flu. Theme 2: Development of Interaction of Cultures Where there is interaction of people‚ there is interaction of cultures. The Swahili city-states were huge cultural centers in eastern Africa‚ where lots of interaction occurred. Their language itself was a mix of Arabic‚ Indian‚ and Bantu language. Also‚ Islam spread throughout Africa. Muslim merchants established communities in
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patterns of development. Additionally‚ once developed‚ those factors either encourage or impede cultural diffusion. Mountains caused the creation of city-states in Greece and hindered cultural diffusion while the location of East Africa led to small Swahili States and encouraged cultural diffusion. Greece encompasses a peninsula that is covered by mountain ranges. These mountains severely impacted the development of that region. These mountains split up the land‚ which led to the creation of small
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Jonathon Martin Period 1 Chapter 8 Questions 1. Long-distance commerce acted as a motor of change in pre-modern world history by altering consumption and daily life. Essential food and useful tools such as salt were traded from the Sahara desert all the way to West Africa and salt was used as a food preserver. Some incenses essential to religious ceremonies were traded across the world because there was a huge demand for them. Trade diminished economic self-sufficiency by creating a reliance on
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sailing ships. They combined lateen sails and square rigs while putting artillery aboard ships. This allowed them to become superior over other countries when sailing across the oceans for land discoveries. If they would have made allies with the Swahili and Omani peoples in in Africa‚ they would have been wanted on the coast which would have been a lot easier to get to know and control trade. Others also might say that the Portuguese had great strategies to take over the trade whether they had allies
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PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS AND THE PROBLEMS FACED WITH TEACHING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE An analysis of the obstacles in the way of effective pupil-centred teaching and learning of the English language in Tanzanian government primary school with recommendations Katy Allen MBE Director‚ Village Education Project Kilimanjaro Presented at The Forum on Community of Practice of Learner Centred Learning in Tanzania held at the Tanzanian Episcopal Conference Centre‚ Kurasini 18th – 19th August 2008 PRIMARY
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Portugal. 5. Dhow - any of various types of sailing vessels used by Arabs on the east African‚ Arabian‚ and Indian coasts‚ generally lateen-rigged on two or three masts. 6. Swahili - a member of a Bantu people of Zanzibar and the neighboring coast of Africa. Also‚ Kiswahili‚ ki-Swahili. the Bantu language of the Swahili people‚ used also as a lingua franca in Tanzania‚ Kenya‚ and parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 7. Urdu- an official language of Pakistan‚ also spoken in India
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