Swahili Beyond the Boundaries: Literature, Language, and Identity

by Alamin Mazrui

Africa is a marriage of cultures: African and Asian, Islamic and Euro-Christian. Nowhere is this fusion more evident than in the formation of Swahili, Eastern Africa's lingua franca, and its cultures. Swahili beyond the Boundaries: Literature, Language, and Identity addresses the moving frontiers of Swahili literature under the impetus of new waves of globalization in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These momentous changes have generated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0896802523
• ISBN13: 9780896802520
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.8" x 8.5"