My Fun Swahili Numbers Nambari book is an English Swahili counting book designed to teach Swahili numbers to beginners. The book has English-Swahili translation making it easy and fun for the English speaker to follow and understand. New Swahili learners will learn how to count and read any numbers in Swahili with ease after using this book. This book has bright images for the younger readers but also covers advanced numbers for older kids. The book has practical examples and suggestions for parents on how to go about teaching their kids Swahili numbers.The book is user user friendly and an easy read for kids. After reading this book kids will be excited and motivated to learn Swahili numbers and to start learning Swahili. The best way to learn a new language is to start by learning numbers. Parents can use this book to introduce Swahili to their kids and get them excited about learning Swahili when they see how easy it is to learn numbers.

Authentic, contemporary language Plenty of exercises Clear and concise grammar explanations Accompanied by audio material

This is a comprehensive manual intended to teach students the basics of communicating in Swahili at an elementary level. It is designed to teach major communicative skills such as speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Moreover, the text strives to impart fundamental knowledge about East African and Swahili culture.

Stray Truths is a stirring introduction to the poetry of Euphrase Kezilahabi, one of Africa’s major living authors, published here for the first time in English. Born in 1944 on Ukerewe Island in Tanzania (then the Territory of Tanganyika), Kezilahabi came of age in the newly independent nation. His poetry confronts the task of postcolonial nation building and its conundrums, and explores personal loss in parallel with nationwide disappointments. Kezilahabi sparked controversy when he published his first poetry collection in 1974, introducing free verse into Swahili. His next two volumes of poetry (published in 1988 and 2008) confirmed his status as a pioneering and modernizing literary force. Stray Truths draws on each of those landmark collections, allowing readers to encounter the myriad forms and themes significant to this poet over a span of more than three decades. Even as these poems jettison the constraints of traditional Swahili forms, their use of metaphor connects them to traditional Swahili poetics, and their representational strategies link them to indigenous African arts more broadly. To date, translations of Swahili poetry have been focused on scholarly interpretations. This literary translation, in contrast, invites a wide audience of readers to appreciate the verbal art of this seminal modernist writer.

Societies on the East African coast and of Swahili culture resist simplistic definition as well as the imposition of clear boundaries. Hence Swahili society and culture have a common mooring, and this book studies specificity in space and time within a broader comparative framework. This book examines how ongoing processes †ideological and material †affect relations within and between societies. The authors all provide ways to understand transformation in Swahili society, and how these are interlinked with ongoing political and economic processes, in East Africa as well as in the wider global context.

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