Swahili for preserving our culture

SWAHILI culture is one that is unique. It is the product of the influence of the Middle East, India and Persia on the coastal region . The coast of East Africa had a long history of trade that involved exchange of ideas and commodities. Also mixed marriages between of African women and Middle Eastern men created and cemented a rich Swahili culture.

Thus the diversity of Swahili culture was a result of the interaction of the coastal people with foreigners in ancient times around the small...

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