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5 feb 2020 contesting belonging, identity, and nation along the swahili coast all worked to restructure oceanic connectivity, creating both new fault.
5 however, a key point this paper intends to make is that the swahili coast did not simply adopt an existing coinage system. In particular, swahili coast coins are not simply east african versions of the islamic coinage of the middle east, north africa, and spain.
By alessandro capurso (cc by-nc-nd) the swahili coast, located along the shores of east africa, was a region where, from the 8th century ce, africans and arabs mixed to create a unique identity, often referred to as swahili culture. Swahili, which is also the name of this people's language, means 'people of the coast.
The swahili coast of eastern africa is one of the most fluid nodes of the global south, where people, ideas, and materials from all over the world converge and intermingle. A muslim cultural complex, its ports have acted as intersections of vastly different social and economic systems for more than a millennium.
18 mar 2019 photographed people became visual data in the making of modern scopic regimes in fact, swahili coast culture was generally aniconic before the local rules of public propriety, colonial categories of race and identi.
Own family history and, by extension, with the conflicting narratives of zanzibar’s post-revolutionary identity. Desertion (2005) opens with the sensational arrival of the mzungu, martin pearce, in a small east african town in 1899, having been abandoned by his somali guides on the way to the coast.
The epistemic terrain upon which young subjects of the swahili coast (as i shall call them) are objectified and subjectified as 'kenyan youth' in the twenty-first century. The peoples i refer to collectively as subjects of the swahili coast are, in broad ethnic terms, swahili and swahili-speaking muslims of arab and south asian descent.
It is my argument that at the heart of the coastal identity known as swahili that emerged in the mid to late first millennium was an embracing of worldliness, of a cosmopolitanism asserted eventually in every tier of society.
The swahili identity that you find spread across the gulf, the subcontinent, the indo-malay peninsula, and the east coast of africa is the result and representation of this confluence of 'cultural meaning' that bose is proposing. In this geography, xaniths are more respected as a maritime identity belonging to the water, not the land.
Their name, the people of the coast, was given to them by the rulers of the sultanate of zanzibar, who looked down on the local inhabitants and gave them this derogatory name; the swahili rarely.
Making identity on the swahili coast: urban life, community, and belonging in bagamoyo (african identities: past and present).
In so doing, they put themselves on par with tribal groups in tanzania, clearing the way for a pan-territorial nationalist identity beyond that of the coastal swahili.
The result was a unique trade that developed along the swahili coast of east africa. The story begins with arab and persian sailors establishing trade colonies in east africa, but its antecedents lie much earlier. Arabian, egyptian, and greek traders had long been making expeditions across the red sea and down the east african coast.
Whether there is a uniquely “swahili” identity and culture, what characterizes the relationship of the swahili coast (and residents) with mainland africa, and how what we now call the swahili coast and swahili people have been affected by geographic, regional, and global factors.
Swahili is a bantu language, composed of words from various ethnic groups dotting the east african coast. This region, christened the “swahili coast,” starts from the bottom of somalia, runs through kenya and tanzania, and finishes at the upper tip of mozambique, and you can’t forget the islands in the indian ocean nearby.
Swahili arabic script on a carved wooden door (open) at lamu in kenya. British archaeologists assumed during the colonial period that arab or persian colonizers brought stone architecture and urban civilization to the swahili coast. Today we know that it was local populations that developed the swahili coast.
Identity politics is a shifting and complex area, but the trick is to claim the right identity at the right time. This article discusses some of the issues associated with this topic on the coast.
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The swahili coast, located along the shores of east africa, was a region where, from the 8th century ce, africans and arabs mixed to create a unique identity, often referred to as swahili culture. Swahili, which is also the name of this people’s language, means ‘people of the coast. ’ eventually, the entire coastal area blossomed into a number of important and independent trading cities which included mombasa, mogadishu, and zanzibar.
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For hundreds of years, the swahili coast of east africa was a center of linguistic and cultural exchange. The kiswahili-speaking area was an important center for trade from at least the twelfth century, and it was influenced by arabic, south indian languages and portuguese, as the author and literary activist abu amirah noted at a recent panel called “ against disappearance”.
In the nineteenth century, the coalescence of a plantation economy on the swahili coast provoked an upsurge in the local slave trade. Increasing numbers of enslaved workers fled inland, and, by the 1840s, some had created independent settlements. Forged by men and women of diverse cultural backgrounds, watoro communities offer broad insight into.
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A photograph of a young woman wearing a greenish veil and holding a mobile phone to her right ear adorns the cover of “swahili modernities”, a collection of conference contributions dealing.
A “coastarian” is a resident of the swahili coast, of which mombasa is one of the ports. The swahili coast has a distinct culture, demography, religion, and geography from the rest of kenya. This expectation was based on mombasa’s struggles with organized crime and violent extremism.
14 dec 2020 steven fabian, making identity on the swahili coast: urban life, community, and belonging in bagamoyo (cambridge up, 2019).
•the swahili community developed along the coast of east africa when arab traders began to settle there and intermarry with the local bantu-speaking population. •the groups’ name comes from the arabic word “swahili,” which means “one who lives on the coast”.
Ad 900–1500: teachers’ notes introduction the east coast of africa, comprising the coastal areas of modern nations of somalia, kenya, tanzania and mozambique, has developed an identity very different from that of other african regions.
Swahili coast architecture meets modernity; an overview of coral stone domestic architecture; making architecture about identity; the watershed moment.
In the nineteenth century, large numbers of omanis and other arab peo- ples settled on the coast, and after a thousand years of engaging with for- eign peoples, domesticating into swahili life elements of indian ocean and muslim cultures, the coast and especially the urban centers became arabicised in ways far beyond anything that had happened previously.
In addition to islam and claims to persian ancestry, swahili identity also became associated with indian ocean trade, an urban style, and a shared language (swahili). Historians of africa trace the origins of the swahili city-states to the bantu expansions, explaining that by the first century ce, bantu farmers had built communities along the east african coast.
Sa‘id tightened his grip on the swahili coast both politically and economically, which turned the economic balance in favour of the muscati arab and hindu merchant classes, whose interests were historically linked to the al-busa‘idi rulers. 12 the prosperity of the 19th century sultanate of zanzibar is mostly the prosperity of sa‘id's.
Ogeneous modern swahili identity in the context of modern european colo- with the most extensive conducted as part of the investigation of urban origins on the swahili coast (horton and clark.
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Situated at a crossroads of trade in the late nineteenth century, and later the economic capital of german east africa, the thriving caravan and port town of bagamoyo, tanzania is one of many diverse communities on the east african coast which has been characterized as 'swahili'. In making identity on the swahili coast: urban life, community, and belonging in bagamoyo (cambridge up, 2019), steven fabian combines extensive archival sources from african and european archives alongside.
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Consolidate his power over the cities of the swahili coast and his 7 from the first half of the 16th century, the portuguese presence modified the hierarchy of the swahili city-states and led to the submission to the portuguese crown through payment of tributes.
In fact, the word swahili itself comes the arabic word ‘sahil’, which means coast. The swahili language is a fusion of african bantu and arabic, and there are a number of similarities with arabic as it is spoken in the middle east today, although it is written using the latin script.
13 jan 2021 additionally, much of the mainland is dominated by bantu ethnic groups, while many coastal residents maintain an identity distinct from their.
Radicalisation on the coast owes more to developments in somalia and kenya than saudi and salafi influences. Its most unexpected impact is its attraction for the myriad and diverse non-muslim youth from outside the coast and abroad. The local swahili who have crossed the somali border are more reluctant radicals in comparison.
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The surface of things: a history of photography from the swahili coast, 1860 to rather than making photography a performance of communal identity, they.
In making identity on the swahili coast: urban life, community, and belonging in bagamoyo (cambridge up, 2019), steven fabian combines extensive archival sources from african and european archives alongside fieldwork in bagamoyo to move beyond the category of 'swahili' as it has been traditionally understood. Revealing how townspeople - africans, arabs, indians, and europeans alike - created a local vocabulary which referenced aspects of everyday town life and bound them together as members.
Along the swahili coast of east africa through an historical i will present is fragmentary but taken as a whole makes a strong case that: 1) there have been understanding swahili identity as dynamic and always subject to negotia-.
It is located towards the southern end of that coast, about 250 km south of the major swahili city of kilwa. Through the first millennium ce mikindani shared broadly in coastal trends (see chami.
The coast and its links with external cultures has been overemphasized at the expense of the role of inland populations.
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The swahili or kilwa sultanate 'was a medieval sultanate, centered at kilwa, whose authority, at its height, stretched over the entire length of the swahili coast. It was founded in the 10th century by ali ibn al-hassan shirazi, a persian prince of shiraz'.
Peace of westphalia -sense of shared identity becomes pokiticize.
The swahili coast in a network of references to the arab peninsula, persia, the indian ocean, the african continent and beyond: polycentric histories of art in coastal east africa. Embracing the margins: the challenge of 20th century democracy to the scandinavian humanities.
(a) map of the part of the swahili coast located in kenya and tanzania and (b) detail of five families commonly found around coral reefs make up 66% of fish nisp: in long‐distance maritime trade and their economic and social ident.
Making of the modern world 4 - professor edmond chang - december 2007. From the eighth century onwards, arab and persian sailors and merchants traveled to the trading centers on the coast of east africa. By the thirteenth century, muslim traders were the most dominant traders along this area, known by the arabs as the zanzibar coast.
The existing literature on women of the swahili coast has focused largely on their involvement in activities labeled as non-islamic by both male peers and scholars. However, islam plays an important role in these women’s lives and they often bring islamic knowledge to bear on their participation in seemingly secular activities.
Sheik badawi on swahili identity (length: 1 min 10 sec) along the swahili coast, gates meets with sheik said hassan badawi, a respected lamu elder and muslim scholar who claims pure arab lineage.
The east coast of africa, comprising the coastal areas of modern nations of somalia, kenya, tanzania and mozambique, has developed an identity very different from that of other african regions. This is partly due to the assimilation of islamic and persian culture through traders, which has given it a unique mixture of african and middle eastern influences, as well as strong links with india.
This introduction provides the setting of the book and the conceptual framework used to rethink how we understand identity on the swahili coast.
Sheik badawi on swahili identity along the swahili coast, gates meets with sheik said hassan badawi, a respected lamu elder and muslim scholar who claims pure arab lineage.
He makes the case that this language came to be called swahili. Indeed, the term swahili comes from the arabic term sawahil literally 'coast-dwellers' or 'people.
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Taking the visual and material culture of the swahili coast as a point of circulate across regions to create societies in which cultural boundaries are constantly and “foreign” to reveal more fluid negotiations of power, differenc.
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The swahili look seawards, being traditionally ocean-going traders, mobile, with strong links to arabia and persia and a long islamic history. Giriama culture, on the other hand, is symbolized by the kaya, fortified forest villages inland from the coast, and some giriama see themselves as more ‘african’ than the ‘arab’ swahili.
The book starts by emphasizing what it means to be a swahili- through the voice of the author and other influential voices in the coast- and how, even individuals like maalim shihab whose father was a punjabi (or kashmiri) native can lay authentic claim to a “swahiliness” that goes beyond racial affiliation.
Many settled there and intermarried with africans to create a unique swahili (“people of the coast”) identity and culture. Located some 2,500 km north of maputo (mozambique’s capital) cabo delgado is isolated, neglected and under-developed.
This move constitutes a poetics of swahili identity, a performative exploration of the network of interrelated tropes through which social actors on the kenyan coast understand what it means to be swahili. 14 drawing on the locally salient ethnic schema of swahili-space (uswahili), i describe this poetics below as a matter of making audible.
The waswahili are a community of communities, a predominantly but not exclusively islamic entity sharing a common language and interactive cultural orientation.
The people of the east african coast are commonly referred to as ‘coastal arabs’ or ‘swahili africans’. The criss-cross of cultures, ideas, languages and ethnicities between east africa and southern arabia throughout history has given rise to a unique fusion of african and arab culture. This has led many to argue that the people of the region would identify more closely with the people of the southern arabian peninsula than they would with africans living inland on the continent.
On the swahili coast of east africa, monumental stone houses, tombs, and mosques mark the border zone between the interior of the african continent and the indian ocean. Prita meier explores this coastal environment and shows how an african mercantile society created a place of cosmopolitan longing.
16 jun 2017 swahili modernities culture, politics, and identity on the east coast of of modernity, identity and politics on the east african coast and islands. This area is undergoing rapid change as globalisation makes its impa.
This module presents the architecture, infrastructure, and material culture of the swahili coast of east africa as it developed from around 1200 ce through the twentieth century. We examine the development of swahili architecture and urbanism as a constant tension between rootedness and cosmopolitanism, place-making and world-seeking.
Swahili people do not have a country of their own and as such, shares the same flag (bendera) with kenya. The swahili culture is very modest, so, a big issue that comes up is with tourists or travellers that come into their communities. Many drink alcohol and dress inappropriately and this has caused some issues within the culture.
In his travel diary, professor gates shares personal feelings and observations of his journeys through africa.
African arabs: migration and cultural exchange on the swahili coast. Throughout its rich history of trade, migration and empire, the east african coast – from eritrea in the north to mozambique in the south – has developed a unique cultural, religious and demographic identity that makes it distinct from the rest of the african continent. The people of the east african coast are commonly referred to as ‘coastal arabs’ or ‘swahili africans’.
Making identity on the swahili coast urban life, community, and belonging in bagamoyo [2019] fabian, steven, 1973- author. Cambridge, united kingdom new york, ny cambridge university press, 2019.
“swahili” from the arabic word “swahil” meaning “the coast. ” regarding the history of the swahili language, the older view linked to the colonial time asserts that the swahili language originates from arabs and persians who moved to the east african coast. Given the fact that only the vocabulary can be associated with these.
14 jun 2018 a show dedicated to the arts of the swahili coast, where africa, south middle east blend, nudges us away from narrow thinking about identity. “africa” doesn' t appear in the title, and its absence makes interest.
Indeed, the very name “swahili” stems from the arabic for “of the coast,” sawahili. The language also incorporates pieces of english, german, portuguese, and other tongues belonging to the merchants and colonizers who permeated the region. Yet, curiously, swahili has come to represent pride in post-colonial identity.
The swahili coast is a coastal area of the indian ocean in southeast africa inhabited by the swahili people. It includes sofala mombasa, gede, pate island, lamu, malindi, and kilwa. In addition, several coastal islands are included in the swahili coast such as zanzibar and comoros.
Franziska fay is a social anthropologist with a focus on children and youth, politics, belonging/identity and art in swahili-speaking contexts. She was trained at soas, london and works in zanzibar, along the swahili coast and in oman.
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