Kiswahili Language and Literature: Bibliographies and Databases

This guide is intended to provide a selection of useful print and electronic resources for the study of Kiswahili language & literature, and Swahili culture.

Print Catalogs

Swahili Bibliographies on the Internet

Databases

Africa-Wide Information.   Provides extensive access to current literature of articles, books , and manuscripts on Kiswahili language, Kiswahili literature, poetry, prose, drama, or related topics.

Hathi Trust Digital Library.  A digital repository of collections (books and journals) of many of the major research libraries in the U.S.  Pdf's of items in the public domain, including Kiswahili texts published during the period of German occupation of Tanganyika (then German East Africa), are available for full-text searching. 

UCLA Language Materials Project.  Interactive database with search engine enabling one to search by language, resource type, and intended audience.  Very useful for both language pedagogy and research.