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Title: The Swahili: Reconstructing the History and Language of an African Society, 800-1500 by Derek Nurse, Thomas Spear ISBN: 0-8122-1207-X Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Pub. Date: January, 1985 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3 (2 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Concise and Informative
Comment: The Swahili is a concise and informative book. It is dry and somewhat boring, but the authors do not drag it on longer than it needs to be. If you are looking for a "quick read" on the Swahili, this is it.

Rating: 2
Summary: The Swahili
Comment: The Swahili, by Thomas Spear and Derek Nurse, is a very boring book with extraneous amounts of unnecessary detail. Though the book contains adequate information dealing with the African Swahili, it will not catch any reader's eye, unless they are forced at gunpoint to read it. Sentences like, "The distinction between Mwani-Mgao and the others farther north suggests that the earliest settlement may have been at an intermediate location, such as Kilwa." There are just so many different tribes and the authors make it difficult to distinguish between them. The Swahili focuses on the lives of the African dwellers of the eastern coast of Africa. The book gives good information about the lives of the Swahili, but the information is not positioned right. The authors make it difficult to understand some crucial points at times.