This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). It’s hard to imagine what the Africans of Zanzibar made of the Persians when they arrived in the 10th century, sailing in on dhow boats ...

1. Why Swahili? -- 2. The Sea and the Land -- 3. The Shape of Swahili Society -- 4. Myth and History -- 5. The Outside World -- 6. Townspeople -- 7. Rank and Family -- 8. Production and Labor -- 9.

It’s hard to imagine what the Africans of Zanzibar made of the Persians when they arrived in the 10th century, sailing in on dhow boats that looked like winged angels of the sea. They were merchants, ...

This article argues that proverbiality may be understood to include more than abstract properties of short, poetically condensed texts. Rather, proverbiality is seen as a characteristic of a specific ...