The Swahili: Reconstructing the History and Language of an African Society, 8-15 - Paperback

by Derek Nurse (Author), Thomas Spear (Author)

"The authors, respectively a linguist specializing in Swahili and related Bantu languages and a historian specializing in the history of East Africa, have assembled an impressive array of evidence--linguistic, archaeological, documentary, and oral-traditi

Author Biography

Derek Nurse is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Thomas Spear is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.