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  • The customs of the Swahili people : the Desturi za Waswahili of Mtoro bin Mwinyi Bakari and other Swahili persons / edited and translated into English by J.W.T. Allen ; compiled in memoriam with notes and studies by various Makerere colleagues, African, American, Asian, British, and European.

    • Text
    • Berkeley : University of California Press, c1981.
    • 1981
    • 2 Items
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    Book/Text JFE 82-178Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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    Book/Text Sc E 82-106Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The Swahilis in western historiography [microform] / by J. de V. Allen.

    • Text
    • [Nairobi?] : University of Nairobi, Dept. of History, 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
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    Microform Sc Micro R-3693Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Swahili culture and identity [microform] / by J. de V. Allen.

    • Text
    • [Nairobi?] : University of Nairobi, Dept. of History, 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
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    Microform Sc Micro R-3693Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The Kiswahili greeting ritual [microform] / by Michael Sims.

    • Text
    • [Nairobi] : University of Nairobi, Institute of African Studies, 1973.
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
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    Microform Sc Micro R-4088Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Swahili history revisited [microform] / by Jim Allen.

    • Text
    • [Nairobi] : University of Nairobi, Institute of African Studies, 1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
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    Microform Sc Micro R-3968Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • An introduction to the music of Swahili women [microform] / by Carol A. Campbell.

    • Text
    • [Nairobi] : Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi, 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
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    Microform Sc Micro R-3968Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Swahili in East Africa [microform] : the territorial differenciation [sic] of the Swahili consciousness in East Africa / by Shunʼya Hino.

    • Text
    • [Nairobi] : Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi, [1974]
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
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    Microform Sc Micro R-3968Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Tamaa mbele, na hadithi nyingine [microform] / kimetungwa na Alex Banzi.

    • Text
    • [Ndanda?] Tanzania : Benedictine Publication Ndanda-Peramiho, 1980.
    • 1980
    • 1 Item
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    Microform Sc Micro R-4783Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Swahili-Arabic impact on Chewa society in Central Nkhota-Kota c.1840-1920 [microform] / by Sol. Liwewe.

    • Text
    • Zomba : University of Malawi, Chancellor College, History Dept., 1983.
    • 1983
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Microform Sc Micro R-4782, no. 36Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The Swahili : reconstructing the history and language of an African society, 800-1500 / Derek Nurse and Thomas Spear.

    • Text
    • Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1985.
    • 1985
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text Sc E 85-296Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Social training strategies [microform] Swahili of old Town, Mombasa, Kenya / by Joshua J. Akong'a.

    • Text
    • [Nairobi] : Institute of African Studies, University of Nairobi, [1980].
    • 1980
    • 1 Item
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    Microform Sc Micro R-4133Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The way the world is : cultural processes and social relations among the Mombasa Swahili / Marc J. Swartz.

    • Text
    • Berkeley : University of California Press, c1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
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    Text Sc E 91-526Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The world of the Swahili : an African mercantile civilization / John Middleton.

    • Text
    • New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text Sc E 92-271Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Swahili bibliography of the East African coast / compiled by Richard Wilding.

    • Text
    • [Nairobi] : Lamu Society, 1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text Sc F 92-315Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Sitten und Gebräuche der Suaheli, nebst einem Anhang über Rechtsgewohnheiten der Suaheli / [gesammelt] von C. Velten.

    • Text
    • Göttingen : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1903.
    • 1903
    • 2 Items
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    Book/Text Sc 572.967-V (Velten, C. Sitten und Gebräuche)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Book/Text ZBD (Velten, C. Sitten und Gebräuche)Offsite
  • Mzimu wa watu wa kale.

    • Text
    • Dar es Salaam (Tanzania), Eagle Press (East African Literature Bureau) 1960.
    • 1960
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text Sc 496.3-A (Abdulla, M. Mzimu wa watu wa kale)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Black tales for white children.

    • Text
    • Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Company [1914]
    • 1914
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text Sc 398-S (Stigand, C. Black tales for white children)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Märchen und Erzählungen der Suaheli, von C. Velten.

    • Text
    • Stuttgart, W. Spemann, 1898.
    • 1898
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text Sc 398-V (Velten, C.Märchen und Erzählungen der Suaheli)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Swahili tales, as told by natives of Zanzibar. With an English translation. A new edition revised by Alice Werner.

    • Text
    • London, Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1928.
    • 1928
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text Sc 496.3-S (Steere, E. Swahili tales. 1928)Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Swahili origins : Swahili culture & the Shungwaya phenomenon / James de Vere Allen.

    • Text
    • London : J. Currey ; Nairobi : E.A.E.P. ; Athens : Ohio University Press, 1993.
    • 1993
    • 2 Items
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    Book/Text JFD 93-6889Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315
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    Book/Text Sc D 93-344Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Mombasa, the Swahili, and the making of the Mijikenda / Justin Willis.

    • Text
    • Oxford : Clarendon Press ; Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1992.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text Sc D 93-869Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The shorefolk : aspects of the early development of Swahili communities / Richard Wilding.

    • Text
    • [Mombasa, Kenya? : s.n., 1987?]
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text Sc F 93-271Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Anyone can dance [microform] : a survey and analysis of Swahili ngoma, past and present / by Marjorie Ann Franken.

    • Text
    • [1987]
    • 1986-1987
    • 1 Item
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    Microform *XMD-468Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • The Swahili : idiom and identity of an African people / Alamin M. Mazrui, Ibrahim Noor Shariff.

    • Text
    • Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, 1994.
    • 1994
    • 2 Items
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    Book/Text JFD 95-3231Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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    Book/Text Sc D 96-496Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Les Swahili entre Afrique et Arabie / Françoise Le Guennec-Coppens et Pat Caplan (sous la direction de).

    • Text
    • Paris : Karthala, 1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text Sc E 92-47Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Continuity and autonomy in Swahili communities : inland influences and strategies of self-determination / edited by David Parkin.

    • Text
    • Wien : Institute für Afrikanistik und Ägyptologie der Universität Wien ; London : School of Oriental and African Studies, c1994.
    • 1994
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text Sc D 96-583Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Feasts and riot : revelry, rebellion, and popular consciousness on the Swahili Coast, 1856-1888 / Jonathon Glassman.

    • Text
    • Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann ; London : James Currey ; Nairobi : E.A.E.P. ; Dar es Salaam : Mkuki Na Nyota, c1995.
    • 1995
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text Sc E 95-305Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • L'Islam et les "Swahili" au Rwanda / José Hamim Kagabo.

    • Text
    • Paris : Editions de l'Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, c1988.
    • 1988
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text *OGC 95-4100Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Jando : the rite of circumcision and initiation in East African Islam / Lena Eile.

    • Text
    • Lund : Plus Ultra, 1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text *OGF 96-7421Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • African voices, African lives : personal narratives from a Swahili village / Pat Caplan.

    • Text
    • London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
    • 1997
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text Sc D 97-794Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Port cities and intruders : the Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the early modern era / Michael N. Pearson.

    • Text
    • Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1998.
    • 1998
    • 2 Items
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    Book/Text JFE 98-3008Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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    Book/Text Sc E 98-1165Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Autorité et pouvoir chez les Swahili / Françoise Le Guennec-Coppens et David Parkin (éds)

    • Text
    • Paris : Karthala, c1998.
    • 1998
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text Sc E 99-61Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Nakulaumu wewe / na Frederick Mbabagu Titi.

    • Text
    • Tanzania : Benedictine Publications Ndanda - Peramiho, 1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text Sc D 99-1929Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Taarab texts, gender, and Islam in an urban East African context : social transformations among the Waswahili of Mombasa, Kenya / by Mwenda G. Ntarangwi.

    • Text
    • 1998.
    • 1998
    • 1 Item
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    Manuscript Sc D 00-904Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • At the boundaries of Dar-al-Islam : cities of the East African coast in the late Middle Ages / by Thomas Robert Gensheimer.

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    • 1997.
    • 1997
    • 1 Item
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    Manuscript Sc D 00-467Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Les nuits de Zanzibar : contes swahili : d'après le texte original recueilli par Edward Steere, 1870 / traduits et présentés par Henry Tourneux.

    • Text
    • Paris : Karthala, c1999.
    • 1999
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text Sc D 00-1969Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • The rise and fall of Swahili states / Chapurukha M. Kusimba.

    • Text
    • Walnut Creek : AltaMira Press, c1999.
    • 1999
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text JFE 00-14597Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • The rise and fall of Swahili states / Chapurukha M. Kusimba.

    • Text
    • Walnut Creek : AltaMira Press, c1999.
    • 1999
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text Sc E 00-1066Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Tarabu [sound recording] : music from the Swahili of Kenia / Malika.

    • Audio
    • Mainz : Haus der Kulturen der Welt, p1996.
    • 1996-1993
    • 1 Item
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    Music CD *LDC 17780 (F)Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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  • The Swahili : the social landscape of a mercantile society / Mark Horton and John Middleton.

    • Text
    • Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2000.
    • 2000
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text Sc E 01-761Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • De Zanzibar à Kilwa : relations conflictuelles en pays swahili / Pascal Bacuez.

    • Text
    • Louvain : Peeters, 2001.
    • 2001
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text Sc E 02-1037Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Performing the nation : Swahili music and cultural politics in Tanzania / Kelly M. Askew.

    • Text
    • Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2002.
    • 2002
    • 4 Items

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    Book/Text *LDC 41835 [CD]Performing Arts Research Collections - Recorded Sound

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    Book/Text *LE 06-6501 [Book]Offsite

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    Book/Text JME 03-44Offsite

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  • Rois, femmes et djinns : contes de l'île d'Anjouan-Comores / textes recueillis et traduits par Mohamed Ahmed-Chamanga ; illustrations de Florence Fabreque.

    • Text
    • Paris : Centre de recherche ocean indien-INALCO : Conseil international de la langue française : EDICEF, c1988.
    • 1988
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text ReCAP 11-12365Offsite
  • African merchants of the Indian Ocean : Swahili of the East African Coast / John Middleton.

    • Text
    • Long Grove, Ill. : Waveland Press, c2004.
    • 2004
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text Sc E 04-928Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Southern Africa and the Swahili world / edited by Felix Chami and Gilbert Pwiti.

    • Text
    • Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Dar es Salaam University Press, 2002.
    • 2002
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text Sc E 07-169Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Swahili culture / Jan Knappert.

    • Text
    • Lewiston, NY : E. Mellen Press, c2005.
    • 2005
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text Sc E 10-1530 bk. 2Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Islam among the Swahili in East Africa / by Caleb Chul-Soo Kim.

    • Text
    • Nairobi, Kenya : Acton Publishers, 2004.
    • 2004
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text Sc D 05-1492Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Swahílisation [microform] : a cultural concept and its significance in Kenya today / by J. de V. Allen.

    • Text
    • Nairobi : University of Nairobi, Institute of African Studies, 1979.
    • 1979
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Microform Sc Micro R-4089Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Women in Taarab : the performing art in East Africa / Mohamed El-Mohammady Rizk.

    • Text
    • Frankfurt am Main : Lang, 2007.
    • 2007
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text Sc D 07-1395Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Taarab iko wapi? : la poesia cantata taarab a Zanzibar in età contemporanea / Flavia Aiello Traore.

    • Text
    • Soveria Mannelli : Iride, c2006.
    • 2006
    • 1 Item
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    Book/Text JMD 07-754Offsite

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