Origin Of The Swahili People And Culture #2
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0:00 Intro
0:19 Swahili Civilization
0:28 Origins Of the Swahili People
01:36 Culture
04:04 Trade
06:43 Religions
09:28 Politics, Film & Literature
12:50 Outro
Who are the Swahili People and how did they influence the African Culture?
Swahili civilization can be traced back, to the 8th century CE, and it rapidly grew during the ''medieval period,'' from the 11th to the 15th centuries.
Origins of Swahili People and Their Culture
This growth was a result of the Indian Ocean Trading Network, that span the economy by bringing in not just riches, but also religious ideas, specifically Islam, which had a significant impact on the local culture. Furthermore, the development of the Swahili language gave a common cultural unity to the people.
Swahili or ''Kiswahili'' is a Bantu language that can be traced back to as early as the 8th to 14th century. It has been noted that the Swahili people originated from a people called the Wangozi from an area called Shungwaya north of the Tana River area in Kenya. They began settling into the coastal areas such as Lamu, Malindi, and Mombasa gradually spreading throughout to larger areas such as Somalia, Tanzania, Comoros, Zambia, and Mozambique. Their migration into these areas, greatly promoted the growth of coastal towns, therefore, fostering more trade among the different communities and also foreign countries such as Portugal, India and China.
Culture
The Swahili is a group of people originating from east Africa; including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Somalia, Mozambique, and Comoros with most of them being of Muslim Bantu origin. Their most known occupations are fishing, farming , trading, and seafaring. The Swahili culture is a blend of diverse African traditions and the surrounding Indian ocean cultures.
Most of the Swahili culture was passed down through oral traditions and cultures, throughout the communities in the coastal areas of East Africa spreading to larger areas. It is evident to note that, the Swahili people were organized into a distinct social caste system. From the top hierarchy was the 'Wangwana' , who were the merchants, second was the 'Wazalia', the freed people, who were descendants of enslaved parents. Then the 'Watumwa', who are the slaves, then the 'wageni' who are the visitors.
The Swahili language and culture, are heavily influenced by Islamic traditions, mixed with their culture. There are two main types of Swahili people. first, Those By birth, and Second, those By assimilation and integration.
It is notable that a local African dialect, that originated from the East African coastal areas, has grown immensely, in popularity and is being spoken outside of its confines, to more than 200 million speakers. To a vast area in Africa Such; as Rwanda, Burundi, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Comoros Liberia, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan, and Swaziland. It is one of the few languages in the world, that has more second-language speakers, than native ones.
The core of the Swahili language originates in various Bantu languages on the coast of East Africa. With much of it, sharing a common ancestry, with Bantu vocabulary from the Pokomo, Taita, and Mijikenda languages and, to a smaller percentage, other East African Bantu languages.
It has been purported in history, that around 16 to 20 percent of the Swahili vocabulary, has derived
words from the Arabic language, but also, other contributing languages, including Persian, Malay Hindustani, and Portuguese.
Swahili is notably among the list of major worldwide languages spoken in large regional areas of the world.
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YISOLELE, APTMH TATA NZAMBI Yama ZULU!!
Finally an accurate video on the KiSwahili language and people, done in a way only a Kenyan or Tanzanian can do. There's a lot of nonsense out there where non-East Africans try to detach KiSwahili from it's bantu foundation and attribute it to Arabic.
This was great. Asante ndugu.
Asante ndugu for the feedback , yes Swahili takes like 95% from Bantu languages and the rest Arabic and foreign ones..so we need to be proud of our language tell our real stories
@@Bantuarise Kabisa 🙏🏿
The problem is the Arabs in mombasa and zanzibar who aren’t swahili try to arabise it. There is a tendency to mix a swahili and the descendats of the Arabs who came. Real swahili are light skinned and brown which is different from the omanis and yemenis.
Look at the current Tanzania president, thats a real swahili not the Arabs
This is the most accurate breakdown of the origins of Swahili. This is pure history without bias. Cheers bro, you did thorough research that many don’t ever get to do. This is brilliant!!!!
Much appreciation for your valuable feedback!!
as a Kenyan am really great full for this video it is really enlightening ❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥❤🔥
Asante Ndugu , I appreciate that!🔥🔥
Awesome! I really love historical videos. And this one is very professionally done.
Thank you for your support!!🔥
nice work
Thank you
This is now one of my favourite channel. As a writer, I'll borrow ideas, thoughts and knowledge. Thanks for starting this channel.
Thanks for the great comment , I'll definitely bring more of this topics. Which area of writing are you doing?
@@Bantuarise I write Fiction stories that borrow inspiration from Traditional/ Ancient African Culture. So your information would mean so much to my work.
@@REAL_EL_JAGUAR That's a Vast area of study in which you have plenty of information you can write about, with over 2000 African groups
@@Bantuarise Yes for sure
@@REAL_EL_JAGUAR Bro,anza hapa Kenya ata huwezi maliza content ni kibao
Very interesting 💐🙌thank you for your hard work!
I appreciate that!🔥🔥
Kiswahili language grammar is 95% is Bantu only 5% is non Bantu!
That's true, I appreciate your comment
I believe that language is of Arabic origin for so reason.
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Chinua Achebe wasn't a swahili writer rather an Nigerian Literal writer, a simple correction there
Go back to 11:15 and listen carefully i mentioned him among African writers, not a Swahili one
Oh God of all creation translated to eh Mungu nguvu yetu 😅😂😊
I don't know how that slipped up 😂😂,thanks for pointing that out
It’s God, the source of our strength 😂 I don’t know why we did that as Kenyans. We know better.
We are ngozi tribe and yes all of us are muslim its not a misconception.... Islam reached swahili people before meddinah.. the prophet peace be upon him was cjased out of mekkah to ethiopia and spread islam in the chushitics clans.... Hence reaching the somali and swahili coast
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We abbolished our tradittional biliefs hence the words waungwana meaning the civilised... The ones who were practising traditional beliefs were called nyika.... Meaning half savage... So yes all swahili are muslims it is not a misconception even those who are still practising traditional beliefs are still muslims.... Its almost impossible to find a swahili person who is not myslim....
I believe the language is off. Arabic origin for Some reason
what? I was born Tanzania, born in Dar is only half Muslim. I and my family, and most friends tbh are very Christian, don't know what you're talking about. 63% Christian. It's 83% Christian in Kenya. Maybe you mean Zanzibar separately, which is very Muslim.
Love thisssssss
Thank You!
Swahili is a mixture of native E.African coastal languages, Arabic, English, Hindu and Portuguese.
Lie
Persian....
When first missionaries bring its teachings(bible) to Kishwahili people everybody was astonished! but later when they wake up they find out that they have bible but theirs land is in foreign hands!
Swahili was the lingua-franca that was brought about via slave trade run by Muslims. Eg Mozambique is named after the island which the sultan, who was like the king of slave trade was named after those days. S Swahili is more like a broken language, eg European language mixed with a native.
U mean Arabs/sabeans? Because Arabs been in those regions way before the birth of the prophet. Basic knowledge
2:17 Watumwa ??? WTF? There was slavery practiced in Africa?
Yes exactly,it was by the Arabs
Yap slavery was in Africa, even before the East African slave trade that predates trans Atlantic slave trade!
The swahili language is 40% arabic.... Because we co-existed with them for generations sometimes with peace, sometimes with war.... When my ancestors jumped in the ocean, knowing death was better than bondage fleeing from portuguese only the arabs were our allies at that time. Hence oman still speaks pure swahili to date....
Theres a high tendency to mix omanis with swahili, there is a difference though they are too assimilated. The Arabs look like omanis, swahili people look like oromo and those cushites tribes
@@jaggerjack30I'm a swahili
@@-xm6qj ok because there are arabs especially yemeni and omanis but they also say they are swahili abd yet swahili are people like late karume, mwinyi, current TZ president, there’s a slight difference. My grandma migrated from mombasa so i know this difference.
What you are saying is not true
Swahilis enslaved Kikuyus who lived on the coast of Kenya before they ever was a ngozi or Swahili living there.With the help of the Arabs ngozi people established themselves on the coast.We Kikuyus know that the forefathers of the kikuyus a part of them came from the coast.And tell me this the Portuguese came way later as the the Arabs were enslaving bantus since 1300 how could you ngozis be enslaved and at the same time trade with the Arabs?what were they trading?
Slaves from other tribes were enslaved by the hands of the ngozi and Arabs.The Swahili enslaved my people for more Land on the coast and that is the truth.
We Kikuyus know.
Bro Arabs sold us, cleanse your programmed mind, your a disgrace to your ancestors
Wrong history
You must be Tanzanian, give us your history!!!