The history of the coastal communities of east Africa shows how ethnic groups and their languages were shaped.
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By the 1950s a standard version of the language emerged, today spoken by an estimated 200 million people.
At independence, adults were reading decolonial classics - but children were reading Enid Blyton. A generation of unsung women writers changed that.
The first ancient DNA sequences from peoples of the medieval Swahili civilization push aside colonialist stories and reveal genetic connections from the past.
Dhamaal music and dance reveals a rich and complex mixing of cultures that is shaped by history.
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Postdoctoral Fellow at Wits Centre for Diversity Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
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Professor of Genetics and of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
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Post-Doctoral Research Associate in History, The University of Edinburgh
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Professor of Anthropology, University of South Florida
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Assistant Professor, Mississippi State University
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Assistant Professor of History, Brigham Young University
