This book is for doctors, nurses and other clinicians working or living in East Africa. It will also be useful for expatriates living in Swahili-speaking countries. A short introduction to Swahili is included. A wide range of clinical and practical topics is covered in detail.Further information about this book is available at www.lulu.com/medicalswahili.

A concise and portable dictionary developed by two experienced and well respected teachers of Swahili. In this work they have taken into account not only the difficulties which non-Swahili speakers from many different language backgrounds have in learning the language, but also the importance of making Swahili equivalents of English words, correspond to those of the best speakers of Swahili. The English-Swahili Pocket Dictionary will be of benefit to English speakers who are learning Swahili, while Swahili speakers who are learning English will also find it invaluable.

The revised English - Swahili Dictionary is a contemporary and easy - to - use reference book for all users whose mother tongue is Swahili. It not only gives detailed help with new scientific terms but also deals with difficult words in a simple way.This unique dictionary contains:Words* More than 10,000 headword entries, including new scientific vocabularyMeanings* 30,000 definitionsExamples of use* Hundreds of phrases and sentences to show how words are used in their perspectiveUsage* Correct grammatical structures and usageIllustrations* More than 300 illustrations including a map of East AfricaIT terminology* Many computer terms have been translated into Kiswahili for the first timeStudy pages* Short history of Swahili, proverbs, shapes and sizes,

The Swahili-speaking coast of Africa has many attractions: its beaches, safaris, and great cultural diversity. This dictionary and phrasebook contains all of the vocabulary and phrases necessary to communicate in Swahili, the most widely spoken African language. Designed for the visitor, the phrasebook offers terms and phrases for travel and daily life situations; a two-way dictionary contains over 2500 essential Swahili words. A basic Swahili grammar and cultural information arc also included. Spoken originally along the eastern coast (the name kiSwahili means 'coastal language'), and now the official language of Tanzania as well as a major language in Kenya, Uganda and the eastern Congo, Swahili is the lingua franca of Eastern Africa, with over 40 million speakers.