Books at KU
- The Swahili : the social landscape of a mercantile society byCall Number: DT429.5.S94 H67 2000 (Watson Stacks)Publication Date: Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2000
Swahili Modernities : culture, politics and identity on the east coast of Africa by Call Number: DT429.5.S94 S93 2004 (Watson Stacks)ISBN: 1592210465Publication Date: Trenton, N.J. ; Asmara, Eritrea : Africa World Press, 2004
African Textiles Today by Call Number: NK8987 .S674 2012 (Art & Architecture LibraryISBN: 1588343804Publication Date: London : The British Museum Press ; [Washington, DC] : Smithsonian Books, in association with BritisIncludes a chapter on "Kanga, capulana and shweshwe : printed cloth of Eastern and Southern Africa."
Books not Available at KU
Kanga : the cloth that speaks by ISBN: 0976694107Publication Date: Bronx, New York : Azaniya Hills Press, 2005English with some Swahili. A description of the cotton fabric with Swahili inscriptions worn by East African women.
Online Resources
- LangMedia : Kiswahili in KenyaIncludes various lessons with corresponding video clips introducing foreigners to practical everyday experiences encountered in adjusting to life and language in Kenya today.
- LangMedia : Kiswahili in TanzaniaA companion site to the LandMedia site on Kenya. Video clips and transcriptions enacting various practical encounters in acculturation of foreigners to East African language and culture.
- Language and Popular Culture in Africa"Language and Popular Culture in Africa is a web-based project set up by Johannes Fabian and Vincent de Rooij of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam. The main aim of LPCA is to document and further the study of expressions of popular language and culture in Africa. This is accomplished in two ways. First of all, by making available, in LPCA Text Archives and Archives of Popular Swahili, texts that express and mediate forms of African popular culture, and secondly, by publishing the Journal of Language and Popular Culture in Africa which publishes studies of African popular texts."
- Kiswahili Lanaguage & Swahili Culture : Kanga WritingsSite created by Hassan Ali, Ottawa, Canada. Includes a chart of Swahili sayings and proverbs that appear on the cotton cloth worn commonly by East African women. The clart also includes translations into English, a link to many beautifully colored examples of cloth with Kanga writings, and notes on the history of Kanga writings.
- Kiswahili Self - Instuction ManualThis Peace Corps Language Training Curriculum is Competency Based, that is, it describes what
the Learners will be able to do with the language. They actually study the language used by the
Native speakers to express themselves in a variety of situations.
Taarab Music
- Taarab MusicTaarab music is played by along the East African coast by the Swahili people.
- Taarab Music on YoutubeA collection of various artistes singing and dancing to taarab music.
Swahili Music and Dance
- The Swahili beat [electronic resource] byCall Number: Visual Material : 1 streaming video file (28 min.).Publication Date: Watertown, MA : Documentary Educational Resources, [2008]
- Performing the Nation byCall Number: ML3760 .A84 2002 (Music & Dance Library - Media & Reserve Desk))Publication Date: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002
- Music of the Waswahili of Lamu, Kenya [electronic resource] byCall Number: 1 streaming sound file ; available via the InternetPublication Date: N[ew] Y[ork] C[ity] : Folkways Records, p1985Link to KU online record for Internet access.
- Gender, Performance and Identity : understanding Swahili cultural realities through songs byCall Number: DT433.545.S93 N73 2003 (Watson Stacks)Publication Date: Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, 2003