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Swahili culture. Swahili culture is the culture of the Swahili people inhabiting the Swahili coast. This littoral area encompasses Tanzania, Kenya, and Mozambique, as well as the adjacent islands of Zanzibar and Comoros along with some parts of Malawi and the eastern part of Democratic Republic of Congo. They speak Swahili as their native ...
History of Tanzania. The modern-day African Great Lakes state of Tanzania dates formally from 1964, when it was formed out of the union of the much larger mainland territory of Tanganyika and the coastal archipelago of Zanzibar. The former was a colony and part of German East Africa from the 1880s to 1919 when, under the League of Nations, it ...
Tanzania is a multilingual country. There are many languages spoken in the country, none of which is spoken natively by a majority or a large plurality of the population. Swahili and English, the latter of which was inherited from colonial rule ( see Tanganyika Territory ), are widely spoken as lingua francas. They serve as working languages in ...
Principal cities of East Africa, c. 1500. The Kilwa Sultanate held overlordship from Cape Correntes in the south to Malindi in the north. The history of Kilwa begins around 960–1000 AD. [3] According to legend, Ali ibn al-Hassan Shirazi was one of seven sons of a ruler of Shiraz, Persia, his mother an Abyssinian His mother was not ethnically ...
Tanzania's literary culture is primarily oral. Major oral literary forms include folktales, poems, riddles, proverbs, and songs. [10] : page 69 The greatest part of Tanzania's recorded oral literature is in Swahili, even though each of the country's languages has its own oral tradition.
Ujamaa ( lit. 'fraternity' in Swahili) was a socialist ideology that formed the basis of Julius Nyerere 's social and economic development policies in Tanzania after it gained independence from Britain in 1961. [1] More broadly, ujamaa may mean "cooperative economics", in the sense of "local people cooperating with each other to provide for the ...
Swahili, also known by its local name Kiswahili, is a Bantu language originally spoken by the Swahili people, who are found primarily in Tanzania, Kenya and Mozambique (along the East African coast and adjacent littoral islands). [6] The number of current Swahili speakers, be they native or second-language speakers, is estimated to be over 200 ...
Department of Languages, Ministry of Education. Jurisdiction. Tanzania Republic. Agency executive. Consolata Mushi, Executive Secretary. Parent agency. Ministry of Education. Baraza la Kiswahili la Taifa (National Swahili Council, abbreviated as BAKITA) is a Tanzanian institution responsible with regulating and promoting the Kiswahili language .