I’ve been waiting for you to talk about US 😁 I feel like you have been forgetting us in your vids mostly when you talked about East Africa . We are here too 💪🏾
...coming from Kenya , Mombasa born,this is the most accurate denotation of the #WaSwahili for the coast of Kenya. They spread from the Coast of Somali to the coast of Mozambique including Lamu,Zanzibar,Pemba,Mafia,Kilwa,Comoros,such a Great people. (some people say Kiswahili means people of this/the island... watu wa ziwa hili- zwahili )
Swahili is now an official U. N. language. It's a beautiful language, extremely rich in vocabulary. In it, is a mixture of languages spoken by all early settlers/traders in E. Africa like English, Portuguese, Hindu , Arabic and local dialects. Hollywood movies pick Swahili words and songs in most scripts like The Lion King,: Simba - Lion, Hakuna Matata - no worries/problem, Jambo which is sf Hujambo(singular) or Hamjambo(plural) - Hello.
Heros and their people. I would always salute their people. I fall blame for some of my people. But in my family, your people (my heros) are always welcome in. I salute your people! From deep and mindful respect. HM3 Towell
I think east Africans can really tell you the swahili of E.Africa.. We are just a Bantu creaole that a common language every bantu feels the mutually intelligibility of Bantu Swahili.... swahili goes all the way to Congo....
@Mzee Mzima hahahha am female and very clean and it is not serious I am Congolese and am being real we have a horrible swahili,the worst swahili in Africa actually
@Mwaniki Mwaniki you are the first Kenyan i've heard saying this mostly Kenyans make fun of our batoto and bushiku but ok,i think Tanzanians have a beautiful Swahili and am Congolese
This couldn't have come at a better time for me. Im currently (trying) to write a high-fantasy novel based in an quasi-African setting, and my protagonists culture is inspired by the city-states of the swahili coast. Thank you for the great material.
I would pay for a video from home team addressing the African Americans are or are not african argument.....lots of people pushing that agenda lots of people ceasing to identify with Africa and claim aboriginal American ....please consider this topic ...love your work ✊
The name waswahili came from the arabs but the indigenous people who lived in the coastal area of east Africa were called wangozi..... they were Africans with there rich and proud culture.
@@Firefox-dn1pd I am not very familar with rwanda ethical demography but I am sure many of them speak swahili that why they choose to make it offical languge , and by doing so it will help find more job approtunities in neighboring countries that also speak swahili , and from what I understood they added swahili to the offical languges not make it only one .
My grandmother is from Rwanda and My grandfather from Zanzibar and i can tell you that Rwanda has its own languege but they also speak Swahili and the languege that they speak is simulare to swahili
The whole east Africa should promote Kiswahili. In my country Burundi, there are a lot of people who speak it as their second language, some even as their first like myself due to being born along the lake Tanganyika coastal areas.
It's likely, but not necessarily the case. I've noticed that East Africa is probably the most diverse region in Africa, in terms of appearance. In one family alone (like mine for example), you can get astounding variances and none of us have admixtures from outside Africa. But then again, I can't claim to be 100% about the Swahili people's genetic makeup.
@@charlesirby5265 Don't lie! The Persians never colonized the Eastern coast of Africa and the Omani Sultanate was the only Arabs that controlled the Swahili states for a brief time until the Zanzibar Revolution.
Swahili language is a derivative of the upper and lower pokomo people, who live close to the bajuni, an older bantu population. They boated to the lamu archipelago and created the first swahili cities.
Thank you home team for your accuracy once again . Kiswahili is a mix of African Bantu languages within the region. When the Arabs came , they found Africans already speaking the language .
Yes, Arab colony/Colonial Arab in Africa, in Swahili coast(Swahil mean coast in Arabic), in Pemba, Dar es Salam(arabic house of peace), Kilwa, Peta, Mombasa, Comoros, Zanzibar(seat power of Oman before black massacre, Arab, Persian, Indian, mix Afro-Arab in 1960s), you still kan see Arab Fort in Zanzibar, Arab houses style architecture, Arab style gate, door & Palace, stone city, was name because most of Coast is build by mud, stone mosque, palace. fort in Zanzibar, Pemba, Peta, Kilwa was proof or Arab past, in Mozambique(portugese take over from Arab, origin name was Musa Bin Malik, just like in Spain many arabic word likde Gibratar from Jabal Tariq, Granada=Al-Granatah, Libson=Libuniya, Cordoba=Kurtubah, but lucky only Comoros still in Arab hand, but Peta, Pemba in Kenya i hope return to Somali(part of Arab league), Kilwa, Dar es salam, Zanzibar in Tanzania. must reunited with Oman or Comoros, North Mali"Azawad must broke free from South Mali, reclaim Timbuktu build by Arab-Tuareg before Mali take over, in Niger old city of Arab-Tuareg, Afro-Arab(Mix) "Agadez" must still in hand of Arab. you can sees arab style building in North of Niger. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agadez 3.bp.blogspot.com/-ofQvC9C1hY4/WFisVj4ZnWI/AAAAAAAAFeo/mQkoIS_2WKkqK-mGkH2E1UW1CSQI__vzACLcB/s1600/Omani%2BEmpire-1856.jpg upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/98/%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%B7%D9%86%D8%A9_%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_1856.jpg/300px-%D8%B3%D9%84%D8%B7%D9%86%D8%A9_%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86_1856.jpg Zanzibar palace upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/67/Dares_222.jpg/1200px-Dares_222.jpg Zanzibar Fort i.ytimg.com/vi/XlPtb-xZYkY/maxresdefault.jpg Zanzibar Castle upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/The_old_castle_in_Zanzibar.JPG Zanzibar The Old Fort (Ngome Kongwe) media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/0d/7a/d6/ed/this-is-old-fort-found.jpg i.pinimg.com/originals/b0/37/90/b0379060ac45f0aa4318955b7f6ff2a2.jpg Sultan al-Hasan ibn Sulaiman, often referred to as "Abu'l-Mawahib" ("father of gifts"), ruled the island of Kilwa Kisiwani, in present-day Tanzania, from 1310 until 1333. Al-Hasan ibn Sulaiman was a member of the Mahdali dynasty, and oversaw a period of great prosperity in his capital city of KILWA. He built the extensive "Palace of Husuni Kubwa" outside of the city and added a significant extension to the Great "Mosque of Kilwa". This building activity seems to have been inspired by the Sultan's pilgrimage to Mecca, whose great buildings he wished to emulate. In 1331 the traveller Ibn Battuta visited the court of the sultan and described the Sultan's great generosity, whence stemmed the appellation "father of gifts ."en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan_al-Hasan_ibn_Sulaiman Zanzibar, Mombasa, Pemba, Peta, Dar es Salam(Arabic mean Houses of Peace) build by Arab & Kilwa by Persian, that why some black killed themselves "Shirazi", door, fort, palace same in Arabia
Once again, excellent work. Bless you. This video was like reliving my primary class 6 history lessons in 1972 only in much more African-oriented detail. The take home from those lessons to little boys and girls was that the east African coast was all about Arabs such as Seyyid Said and Seyiid Bargash, the Portuguese and the British. Great the Portuguese are left out of the narration altogether. Some of us learnt latter that this was not so and this video seals the story with authority. Now, Kiswahili, currently with probably 250 m speakers from South Sudan to Angola, is destined to be the official language of Africa - Wont those Waswahili feel proud to have bequeathed us such a gift? We are grateful to them and will tell them as much on my next trip to Mvita. Asante sana. (No need for translation) Baraka nyingi (test question for translation - 5 marks)
Certainly, Bw. Njagi, there is need to avoid what might translate as chauvinism However, there are many reasons for Kiswahili being a front-runner with reasons such as the three given below: .1 One of the proponents is Julius Malema and Kiswahili is about to enter the South African school curriculum. .2 In terms of the number of speakers, Hausa, Fon and Kiswahili are the leading African languages. The first two are associated with large nations, ethnicities if you will, but Kiswahili has risen to the level of a lingua franca understood my more than 200 African nations. .3 It is already the only African official language in the African Union.
Apart from yours, I have heard no complaints, Bw Njagi. However my opinion bears the same weight as yours. Therefore, let your opinion be known by those who might act on it. There is a relatively new institution of the African union dealing in languages which recently opened a translations laboratory either in Niamey or Ouagadougou. I looked but cannot find it. I would suspect such questions would be referred to them.
Mbona wasikusikize? Huu ni muunagano wa watu wa Afrika bila kubagua umri au jinsia. Na tena, wanajihusisha sana vijana kame wewe. Kwa hivyo, ukiuliza swali, watasikia Waulize, mjadala mzuri waweza kuzinduka hapo.
Hapo sikubaliani nawe hata kidogo. Mungano wa Afrika ni wetu sisi, uwanja ni wako, unamawaidha na pia ujasiri. Kwa hivyo usingoje, usisite. Tafuta kile chuo cha lugha nilikuelaza hapo awali, ama pia wizara ya muungao inayohuiska na mabo ya kimila na utamaduni kwa mtandao, kasha uwatumie barua fupi. Dakika kumi tu! Usikate tama, Njagi.
I love these documentaries. We were never taught about the diversity of cultures in Africa, when I was at school. The western conception can be very limited and stereotypical.
Igbos play prominently in u.s history so-called "African Americans" are mostly Igbo and are awakening to this fact. ALL PRAISE DUE UNTO YAH! KUM BA YAH HALLELU-YAH FOREVERMORE!!
Sid Morgan cut it out! You are pseudo Hebrew Isrealite and there are fools such as some Igbos that believe they are white Hebrews that were burnt by the sun. This stupid belief directly ties into the Biafran War and who came to their rescue. And no most African American aren’t Igbos fool they are a mix of navy West African tribes from Akan, Mandingo, Mende, Yoruba, Igbo etc......
@@freetownmkteer why are u pained by his openion? It a free world, and everybody has a freedom of belief. If u disagree with him, there are better ways to express it.
@MBOYA Ogutu Most Africans don't know what Kwanzaa is. Also, as a Swahili speaker, I found it strange. Why would you create a holiday not even related to your ancestors? It has East African principles and an East African language when black people are West Africans... It would be like someone of German ancestry in America started celebrating an Italian holiday with an Italian language...
Thank you so much for this accurate video. I'm not Swahili myself but I am a Kenyan who's lived in Mombasa all my life and I didn't even know some of this stuff myself 😂
Swahili being the biggest and fastest growing African lingua franca is like 95% original African coastal language and only 5% foreign influence. People of other cultures i:e Arabs and the rest, who had interaction with the coastal parts and had a little bit of their language assimilate into Swahili like to over estimate their importance and influence of their culture into Swahili.
does that make me less yoruba? i'm actually of nigerian paternity 🇳🇬 ghanaian maternity 🇬🇭 and some amazigh (berber) 🇲🇦 background, but...born and raised in america. 🇺🇸
Hi Hometeam! I just wanted to correct you on something minor. The Somali cities like Mogadishu and Brava were Somali and not Swahili. This is a common misconception. Great video BTW.
Right! Brava and Mogadishu have been Somali since forever. Those cities may have been encompassed within the Swahili sphere of influence such as the Shangani district within central Mogadishu but yes that assertion was very wrong.
@@safuu202 if you read The invention of somalia 🇸🇴 you will see the meaning of mogadishu. And it was the capital of BANADIR region streaching from mogadisho to raskiamboni. All the names you will see are swahili and Arabic.
KUSHUM PENG , that will be a good idea. But then it’s not the most popular African language. Fula language which is nomadic is the most popular. It ran across several countries and the next after the foreign languages of the colonisers is Yoruba. Swahili is popular in East Africa,but not North or West Africa or South. Each region has its own popular languages.
Currently 24 African countries have signed a pact to adopt Kiswahili as National Language. Rwanda has dropped French for Kiswahili. Kenya has both English and Kiswahili.South Africans have this year,2019 introduced Kiswahili into their school curriculum.Kiswahili is spoken by about 135Million people and counting. Hail King of African Languages.
The Swahili people of the East Coast of Africa for thousand of years exported gold and iron to India, Indochina, Indonesia and China. they imported silk clothes, ceramic vessels and iron weapons from those countries. The Swahili got their gold from the Monomotapa empire of Southern Africa,
@Nagaraja this is the most important. Everyone ignores the booming arab slave trade based at the east african coast and perpetuated by coastal locals on the in-landers.
Nice video but it's sad you didn't mentioned the influence of Kikongo language on Kiswahili. Both languages have a lot of similarities. In Kikongo mvita/vita means war.
Swahili coast and Kongo coast had socio economic interactions for years. Doing trades and interactions. Similarities are profound between these languages
It is interesting how Ancient Egyptians had contact with Somalis long time ago. And white supremasist said that their is not connection between sub saharan Africans 🙄
Menelik II of Ethiopia not just Somalis. The whole of the horn as well. Don’t forget land of punt had deep connections to Egypt. Even much so that Egyptians believed their ancestors to originate from there.
I am from Nairobi Kenya. Very informative Video. We run a site called African Explorer Magazine. We did piece on Swahili History. If you get time pass through and get to learn more about Africa. Maybe HomeTeam can get a few ideas on stories he can do on his channel.
You missed the best legend of all about the swahili coast the legend of the smart and forgiving and strong African king. The king that brought Islam to swahili coast and yes the people their are African and can still build structures the same way great video brother.
Thanks for the video. To my Swahili brothers please confirm: "mshenzi" is a derogatory word that means "stupid", not slave. Mtumwa is servant. What's the Swahili name for slave?
I think it would be helpful to clarify the substantial difference in slavery that existed in Africa & Asia to that of the slave trade purprotated by the Europeans. The latter is unprecedented in human history.
I just discovered your channel. I've watched a few of your videos and it's amazing how much time and effort you put into your research. I was wondering if you could do a video about Rwanda/Burundi. I know you've already done a video about the Tutsis of Rwanda. But I would greatly appreciate it if you could do another video focusing more on the cultural aspects of the two countries and any similarities they may have with other countries in Africa. I'm from Rwanda myself and I sometimes wonder if there are traditions we share with others (other than Burundians). For example, in our culture, the concept of a family name isn't the norm and people in the family usually all have their own unique first AND last names. I have a Sudanese friend whose family seems to follow that tradition. Though, when I asked her about it once, she didn't seem up to discuss it (the kids all definitely have the same dad, so maybe I just caught her on a bad day) and I never got another opportunity to ask her again. Anyways, please do the video if you have the time and are able to. Thanks for all your hard work!
elle19ism although I'm not HomeTeam History I also make African History videos and I love your comment. I agree, I think a video on Burundi would be VERY interesting and in fact I think I might do a video on it since not many people know about the country let alone the culture.
@@africanhistory1252 you know, when I say I'm from Rwanda, people either have no idea where it is or they say "oh it's that place where the genocide happened, right" with a look of pity in their eyes. Then I have to say it's mostly peaceful now. But when it comes to Burundi, most people don't know it even exists. But we have such rich cultures in both countries, that I wish more people knew about. Also, I'll be sure to check out your videos.
@freddy njagi oh right. I haven't noticed that many similarities between Kikuyu and Kinyarwanda, but that's probably because I haven't been exposed to Kikuyu that much. It's so true about the accents though
@freddy njagi I live in the UK so they're not hard to find 😂 but I'm usually with them in situations where they're speaking Swahili (coz there are other East Africans) or just English. I rarely hear them speak Kikuyu
@freddy njagi no I don't speak it, so I'm usually lost when people around me are speaking it. I can pick out words but not enough to follow the conversation. I want to learn it though. I have noticed that many Rwandans don't speak it. When they do, it's usually the older generations. I don't know why it's not more widespread in Rwanda, compared to Burundi for example
Waswahili are not tribe but it is a language spoken mostly in East Africa coast as result of local ethnics groups to meet with foreigners along the coast they form common language for communication but mostly they retain their native language
Good video but this 'waswahili ' have their own tribes like mijikenda and giriama. Identifying with a language that everyones speaks, mostly it non-africans who have stayed that like to identify like that. I wish you had covered the actual tribes instead of an umbrella which is less significance especially to us people of african descent.
It's not swahili its kiswahili. These are my people. Kiswahili didn't pick up Arab words it was arabs who added their language in kiswahili because of trade including Italian and many others languages were added not picked up.
Arab scholars including ibn khaldoun, Ibn Saeed Maghribi, ibn Batuta that visited east Africa distinguished the Somali coast from the swahili coast. The Arabs called the Somali coast as Eastern Berber (Berberul mashriq) to differentiate them from the northern Berbers in north Africa. They called the Swahili coast as Zanj. To this day the Arabs call Somali livestock that's exported to the Arabs like the goats for instance ganamul Berber (the goats of the Berbers in Arabic). And the name Berber (meaning tall dark and slim people) was given to Somalis by Greek mappers like Strabo who visited the land and witnessed the frankincense trade way before Islam but Somalis never took the name because in the Somali culture you're not animal to be branded by someone else. To this day the Italian Catholic church still buys the frankincense that's grown in East and north of Somalia. So no the Somali coast was not considered swahili however Swahili merchants as well as Arab, Persian and Indian came for trade.
I would love to see a piece on the the people who speak Lingala. I came across the language a few years ago and it sounded like the root of Japanese to me.
Batetela is a little tribe in Congo, speak lingala and tetela. Tetela sound really like Japanese lol way more than lingala and they eat like asians ( most of recipes are with rices/ mix of salt and sugar/pork chicken and fish) ... And they have same names has japanese lol 😃 my mom's name is Atato & Dad's name is Okita 😅🤗 For congolese people they tought that we're japanese descendant.
Mogadishu, Barawe, Marka, Kismayu, Ras-Kiamboni, Bajuni Islands in Somalia and Kenya, Lamu, Malindi, Mombasa, Tanga, Bagamoyo, Zanzibar (Unguja & Pemba), Lindi, Kilwa, Mafia, Ngazidja (Comoros), Sofala as well as part of Northern Mozambique are all Swahili cities. Somalis came from Ogaden and they invaded Mogadishu, Barawe, Marka and Kismayu during 14th century.
I shall be glad to translate most of the ethnic words you quoted. They are Arabic words. If translated, you shall have all the explanations you need. The Swahilis, Bantus, Hausas, Tuaregs & Yorubas are all cross-bred with Arabs for over 3,000 years, well before Islam. I shall be glad to share our history with you.
Swahili culture, style and architecture is beautiful.
I’ve been waiting for you to talk about US 😁 I feel like you have been forgetting us in your vids mostly when you talked about East Africa . We are here too 💪🏾
Who is us?
Just curious miss lady.
Kiswahili people
Chad Tep Obviously the people he’s talking about in the video 🤷🏾♀️
Tribe of Judah!! 🙌
I speak fluent Kiswahili.
Mombasa was founded in the 10th Cen. AD and yes the name was Mvita.
This dude knows this stuff... kudos
Why,didn't you say that in Swahili
...coming from Kenya , Mombasa born,this is the most accurate denotation of the #WaSwahili for the coast of Kenya. They spread from the Coast of Somali to the coast of Mozambique including Lamu,Zanzibar,Pemba,Mafia,Kilwa,Comoros,such a Great people. (some people say Kiswahili means people of this/the island... watu wa ziwa hili- zwahili )
I'm comorian
Swahili is now an official U. N. language.
It's a beautiful language, extremely rich in vocabulary. In it, is a mixture of languages spoken by all early settlers/traders in E. Africa like English, Portuguese, Hindu , Arabic and local dialects. Hollywood movies pick Swahili words and songs in most scripts like The Lion King,: Simba - Lion, Hakuna Matata - no worries/problem, Jambo which is sf Hujambo(singular) or Hamjambo(plural) - Hello.
Heros and their people. I would always salute their people. I fall blame for some of my people. But in my family, your people (my heros) are always welcome in. I salute your people! From deep and mindful respect.
HM3 Towell
Africa has some beautiful exotic melanin people. Yes indeed. ✊
That's strange to call them exotic, melanin. They are the origin people of the Land, not a philosophical idea of a new inbred society.
@@JoseyTurn17 i was just thinking the same.
Very similar in a appearance to some Melanesian people, for example Papuans.
@@JoseyTurn17 I would suggest that he or she has misunderstood the meaning of exotic
Yes indeed we truly do
This is for my people, my African melanin poping people although it's sad what happened to us but Yahweh saw us through. Love all my People
I think east Africans can really tell you the swahili of E.Africa..
We are just a Bantu creaole that a common language every bantu feels the mutually intelligibility of Bantu Swahili.... swahili goes all the way to Congo....
but the congo swahili is something else like batoto ,bushiku hahahaha
@@jeswazwadi7049 you're not funny.
@@The461Official I was to two people
@Mzee Mzima hahahha am female and very clean and it is not serious I am Congolese and am being real we have a horrible swahili,the worst swahili in Africa actually
@Mwaniki Mwaniki you are the first Kenyan i've heard saying this mostly Kenyans make fun of our batoto and bushiku but ok,i think Tanzanians have a beautiful Swahili and am Congolese
Thank you for your time and effort. It has not gone unnoticed. We are passing all of this information down to our children. We R Moor👌🇲🇦
Tarik Moor hg
you are
Beautifully done! Beautiful people! Best team ever.... THE HOMETEAM👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
This couldn't have come at a better time for me.
Im currently (trying) to write a high-fantasy novel based in an quasi-African setting, and my protagonists culture is inspired by the city-states of the swahili coast.
Thank you for the great material.
Liked this immediately cos I'm Tanzanian :)
I am from your next door neighbour, Kenya 😃
Check out Traveling Sista in Tanzania. She married a local man from Arusha. They live there now.
Monica Mjema Same
Monica Mjema tanzaniaan here
me too
SWAHILI PEOPLE ARE BEAUTIFUL AND MAJESTIC.
Exactly
I have been looking for a channel like this forever thanks
HAUSA people next please home team!!!! It's rich history with Queen Amina
@Mz Tiyahs Gaming & Vlog I'm of the HAUSA tribe of Nigeria
I'm hausa too
The baswahili are also in the democratic republic of Congo, in the east and south of the country. I am half muswahili
'Hakuna Matata' has been trade marked by Walt Disney☕️🐸
For real?
@@shiryuu1850 yep.
Flyboy it means there is no problems
Lumani no problem sis
What the hell, is that even legal?
I would pay for a video from home team addressing the African Americans are or are not african argument.....lots of people pushing that agenda lots of people ceasing to identify with Africa and claim aboriginal American ....please consider this topic ...love your work ✊
We ARE Africans.
I IDENTIFY AS AFRICAN-AMERICAN, A DESCENDANT FROM AFRICA. ALOT OF MY RELATIVES ARE ASHAME OF BEING BLACK/AFRICAN.
@@anthonywest4173 why? being African is great the only downside is racism or traditional beliefs you dont like
@@anthonywest4173 It’s not shame. We are a different ethnicity now, and are American
I am a muswahili, you forgot to mentioned that we expanded to the Eastern Congo
Even the south, kongolo, kalemi as well ,I am originally from there
@@aliciamomat7963 babembe tribe?
No such tribe in Congo the people only exist in Kenya, Tanzania and Comoros, you just speak a broken Kiswahili dialect
@@No.24Baraka all the East coast of Congo are all Swahili folk due to their legacy and more
The name waswahili came from the arabs but the indigenous people who lived in the coastal area of east Africa were called wangozi..... they were Africans with there rich and proud culture.
Rwanda made swahili their offical languge , finally african country deconolize themselves of their conolizers languge and back to origins 😍
Swahili is not their mothertongue. Its a foreign language. Kinyarwanda is their mothertongue.
@@Firefox-dn1pd I am not very familar with rwanda ethical demography but I am sure many of them speak swahili that why they choose to make it offical languge , and by doing so it will help find more job approtunities in neighboring countries that also speak swahili , and from what I understood they added swahili to the offical languges not make it only one .
My grandmother is from Rwanda and My grandfather from Zanzibar and i can tell you that Rwanda has its own languege but they also speak Swahili and the languege that they speak is simulare to swahili
The whole east Africa should promote Kiswahili. In my country Burundi, there are a lot of people who speak it as their second language, some even as their first like myself due to being born along the lake Tanganyika coastal areas.
I am a Rwandan ! We speak kinyarwanda
Swahili is our second language
I myself speak fluent Swahili
From Kigali nyamijyosi( mtoto wakazi) nituebwe
The Swahili people vary in appearance, i'm guessing it's due to some of them (from particular regions) having Arab heritage?
It's likely, but not necessarily the case. I've noticed that East Africa is probably the most diverse region in Africa, in terms of appearance. In one family alone (like mine for example), you can get astounding variances and none of us have admixtures from outside Africa. But then again, I can't claim to be 100% about the Swahili people's genetic makeup.
Yes some have Arab ancestry or Persian ancestry. The persians colonize the coast of east Africa and southeast Africa before the arabs.
@@charlesirby5265 thanks for that information
@@charlesirby5265
Don't lie! The Persians never colonized the Eastern coast of Africa and the Omani Sultanate was the only Arabs that controlled the Swahili states for a brief time until the Zanzibar Revolution.
elle19ism interesting.
I'll love to see the Hausa people profiled. Love their architecture.
This was one of my favorite videos yet. Love your work. Can you do the Mende people next?
I'll try and get to that one in the future
The best on UA-cam
leboye Michael if u enjoy this channel you may enjoy my channel too. I make animated videos on African History. Check it out.
@@africanhistory1252 I just sub make me proud
I can't believe how little I knew of the Swahili even though we share a country. We should be taught of the origins of our tribes in school
Beautiful people, thank you for the briefing. So it's more than just a language, they are a people
There is a place in DRC called mombasa. The port at the coast is probably where all the ivory was loaded into ships.
It's so interesting hearing you pronounce Swahili words.Great work, I'm Kenyan.
Swahili language is a derivative of the upper and lower pokomo people, who live close to the bajuni, an older bantu population. They boated to the lamu archipelago and created the first swahili cities.
It was known as kingozi.
Please elaborate more on this
Thank you home team for your accuracy once again . Kiswahili is a mix of African Bantu languages within the region. When the Arabs came , they found Africans already speaking the language .
Yes, Arab colony/Colonial Arab in Africa, in Swahili coast(Swahil mean coast in Arabic), in Pemba, Dar es Salam(arabic house of peace), Kilwa, Peta, Mombasa, Comoros, Zanzibar(seat power of Oman before black massacre, Arab, Persian, Indian, mix Afro-Arab in 1960s), you still kan see Arab Fort in Zanzibar, Arab houses style architecture, Arab style gate, door & Palace, stone city, was name because most of Coast is build by mud, stone mosque, palace. fort in Zanzibar, Pemba, Peta, Kilwa was proof or Arab past, in Mozambique(portugese take over from Arab, origin name was Musa Bin Malik, just like in Spain many arabic word likde Gibratar from Jabal Tariq, Granada=Al-Granatah, Libson=Libuniya, Cordoba=Kurtubah, but lucky only Comoros still in Arab hand, but Peta, Pemba in Kenya i hope return to Somali(part of Arab league), Kilwa, Dar es salam, Zanzibar in Tanzania. must reunited with Oman or Comoros, North Mali"Azawad must broke free from South Mali, reclaim Timbuktu build by Arab-Tuareg before Mali take over, in Niger old city of Arab-Tuareg, Afro-Arab(Mix) "Agadez" must still in hand of Arab.
you can sees arab style building in North of Niger.
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Zanzibar The Old Fort (Ngome Kongwe)
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Sultan al-Hasan ibn Sulaiman, often referred to as "Abu'l-Mawahib" ("father of gifts"), ruled the island of Kilwa Kisiwani, in present-day Tanzania, from 1310 until 1333.
Al-Hasan ibn Sulaiman was a member of the Mahdali dynasty, and oversaw a period of great prosperity in his capital city of KILWA. He built the extensive "Palace of Husuni Kubwa" outside of the city and added a significant extension to the Great "Mosque of Kilwa". This building activity seems to have been inspired by the Sultan's pilgrimage to Mecca, whose great buildings he wished to emulate. In 1331 the traveller Ibn Battuta visited the court of the sultan and described the Sultan's great generosity, whence stemmed the appellation "father of gifts
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Zanzibar, Mombasa, Pemba, Peta, Dar es Salam(Arabic mean Houses of Peace) build by Arab & Kilwa by Persian, that why some black killed themselves "Shirazi", door, fort, palace same in Arabia
This is not accurate at all, Jesus. This is how people erase history to suit their narrative, wow.
Once again, excellent work.
Bless you.
This video was like reliving my primary class 6 history lessons in 1972 only in much more African-oriented detail.
The take home from those lessons to little boys and girls was that the east African coast was all about Arabs such as Seyyid Said and Seyiid Bargash, the Portuguese and the British. Great the Portuguese are left out of the narration altogether.
Some of us learnt latter that this was not so and this video seals the story with authority.
Now, Kiswahili, currently with probably 250 m speakers from South Sudan to Angola, is destined to be the official language of Africa - Wont those Waswahili feel proud to have bequeathed us such a gift?
We are grateful to them and will tell them as much on my next trip to Mvita.
Asante sana. (No need for translation)
Baraka nyingi (test question for translation - 5 marks)
Certainly, Bw. Njagi, there is need to avoid what might translate as chauvinism
However, there are many reasons for Kiswahili being a front-runner with reasons such as the three given below:
.1 One of the proponents is Julius Malema and Kiswahili is about to enter the South African school curriculum.
.2 In terms of the number of speakers, Hausa, Fon and Kiswahili are the leading African languages. The first two are associated with large nations, ethnicities if you will, but Kiswahili has risen to the level of a lingua franca understood my more than 200 African nations.
.3 It is already the only African official language in the African Union.
Apart from yours, I have heard no complaints, Bw Njagi.
However my opinion bears the same weight as yours.
Therefore, let your opinion be known by those who might act on it.
There is a relatively new institution of the African union dealing in languages which recently opened a translations laboratory either in Niamey or Ouagadougou. I looked but cannot find it.
I would suspect such questions would be referred to them.
Mbona wasikusikize?
Huu ni muunagano wa watu wa Afrika bila kubagua umri au jinsia.
Na tena, wanajihusisha sana vijana kame wewe.
Kwa hivyo, ukiuliza swali, watasikia
Waulize, mjadala mzuri waweza kuzinduka hapo.
Waeleze hayo.
Watakusikia
Wakiniuliza mabo ya uahndis na ujenzi, nitawaeleza
@freddy njagi
Hapo sikubaliani nawe hata kidogo.
Mungano wa Afrika ni wetu sisi, uwanja ni wako, unamawaidha na pia ujasiri.
Kwa hivyo usingoje, usisite.
Tafuta kile chuo cha lugha nilikuelaza hapo awali, ama pia wizara ya muungao inayohuiska na mabo ya kimila na utamaduni kwa mtandao, kasha uwatumie barua fupi.
Dakika kumi tu!
Usikate tama, Njagi.
I love these documentaries. We were never taught about the diversity of cultures in Africa, when I was at school. The western conception can be very limited and stereotypical.
Luba ppl. Alamo known as Maluba. Kongo Kinshasa stand up. Great resume brother
Love ur videos so much! Pls Do a video about Igbo people of Nigeria and there History. And the Biafran Country
Igbos play prominently in u.s history so-called "African Americans" are mostly Igbo and are awakening to this fact. ALL PRAISE DUE UNTO YAH! KUM BA YAH HALLELU-YAH FOREVERMORE!!
Sid Morgan cut it out! You are pseudo Hebrew Isrealite and there are fools such as some Igbos that believe they are white Hebrews that were burnt by the sun. This stupid belief directly ties into the Biafran War and who came to their rescue. And no most African American aren’t Igbos fool they are a mix of navy West African tribes from Akan, Mandingo, Mende, Yoruba, Igbo etc......
@@freetownmkteer why are u pained by his openion? It a free world, and everybody has a freedom of belief.
If u disagree with him, there are better ways to express it.
I second this @hometeamhistory. My Y chromosome has been traced back to the Igbo of Nigeria. I’d like to know more of them.
@@ShangosAx 😭😭 My Brother Nice to meet you.
Just in time for Kwanzaa! ❤️🖤💚
@MBOYA Ogutu Most Africans don't know what Kwanzaa is. Also, as a Swahili speaker, I found it strange. Why would you create a holiday not even related to your ancestors? It has East African principles and an East African language when black people are West Africans... It would be like someone of German ancestry in America started celebrating an Italian holiday with an Italian language...
@MBOYA Ogutu Beautiful response bro.
Rimu N JUST STOP HATING! UNITE DON'T DIVIDE!
Kwanza is some stupid colonial lie, well done for forgetting your ancestors and serving the white man you uncle tom.
We mjinga unasema Nini?
Mimi Mswahili hapa,🇰🇪 na 🇹🇿.Twajivunia uswahili wetu.
I'm a descendant of the Swahili people, Tanzania.
Za familia?
@@Peterblack12 Nzuri ndugu, leta habari?
@@quietatse salama
@@quietatse i'm trying kujifunza swahili
@@Peterblack12 You're doing great, keep at it. Hongera.
Yaaaaaaaaasssss! I know several people with Swahili names and have wanted to learn the language for a long time.
N WB Let me teach you all the Swahili you need to know
@@nyamskenya4580 interested in learning kiswahili too
@@nyamskenya4580 Start teaching on your channel. You'll have plenty of subscribers.
11 59 that is such a good idea. Let me set up my channel
@@nyamskenya4580 make it specific to the pan african diaspora, you will have many fans. 👍👍
Love this video! Very informative 👍🏾😊 Can you do History of the Bakongo people?
Are u Congolese ?
Lord Kaidu yea
@@eliyahdailey Olobaka Lingala?
Muana Muluba muke kaka 👍🏾😊 Mais Je comprends lingala tres bien.
@@eliyahdailey nice to know and your beautiful
I hope you do the Zulus Hutus Twa Igbos Hausas Tauregs Xhosa and shona peoples
Thank you so much for this accurate video. I'm not Swahili myself but I am a Kenyan who's lived in Mombasa all my life and I didn't even know some of this stuff myself 😂
Damn really
Swahili being the biggest and fastest growing African lingua franca is like 95% original African coastal language and only 5% foreign influence. People of other cultures i:e Arabs and the rest, who had interaction with the coastal parts and had a little bit of their language assimilate into Swahili like to over estimate their importance and influence of their culture into Swahili.
Where are you getting this lingua franca shit from?
brother...i love your videos. 🎥
that's coming from a proud yoruba! 😁
@Neon Dawn
yes...i'm also a muslim, so would it be more acceptable if my name was written with the latin alphabet??! 😕
does that make me less yoruba? i'm actually of nigerian paternity 🇳🇬 ghanaian maternity 🇬🇭 and some amazigh (berber) 🇲🇦 background, but...born and raised in america. 🇺🇸
@@sulaimaanahmad Sulayman Ahmed Masha Allah bruh I'll be looking forward to learn Yoruba culture insha Allah
@@professionalhacker2834
إن شاء ﺍﻟﻠـﻪ (inshaa allah) 👍
@Neon Dawn says the guy writing his name with Latin Alphabet
swahili love !!!!!!
lamu my best place ever
home . is where we belong .
Hi Hometeam! I just wanted to correct you on something minor. The Somali cities like Mogadishu and Brava were Somali and not Swahili. This is a common misconception. Great video BTW.
Right! Brava and Mogadishu have been Somali since forever. Those cities may have been encompassed within the Swahili sphere of influence such as the Shangani district within central Mogadishu but yes that assertion was very wrong.
That would imply that there are no bantu in somali. This is almost true due to the wagalla expansion. (mgala muue lakini haki yake mpe)
Charles Otieno There are many Bantu in Somalia.
500 hundred 💯 island of Bajuni people streaching from Kismayu to Pate island.
@@safuu202 if you read The invention of somalia 🇸🇴 you will see the meaning of mogadishu. And it was the capital of BANADIR region streaching from mogadisho to raskiamboni. All the names you will see are swahili and Arabic.
Another great video bruh keep them coming.
Please teach us about The Congo. Too many people know too little about one of the largest countries. Myself included.
Kiswahili is going to be the new language for all Africans to communicate on the continent and Worldwide
KUSHUM PENG , that will be a good idea. But then it’s not the most popular African language. Fula language which is nomadic is the most popular. It ran across several countries and the next after the foreign languages of the colonisers is Yoruba. Swahili is popular in East Africa,but not North or West Africa or South. Each region has its own popular languages.
Ebonics is better
@freddy njagi Your A Dumbass Kenya ...Swahili Is Another Arabic...No Body Will Want To Speak A Foreign Language
@@beanladen5726 lol do your research please. Swahili is very african.
@@beanladen5726 do your research fool
Currently 24 African countries have signed a pact to adopt Kiswahili as National Language. Rwanda has dropped French for Kiswahili. Kenya has both English and Kiswahili.South Africans have this year,2019 introduced Kiswahili into their school curriculum.Kiswahili is spoken by about 135Million people and counting. Hail King of African Languages.
y’all they built some buildings, like the ones in kilwa kisiwani entirely out of coral and i think that is incredible.
Another Amazing video. We should definitely collaborate, HomeTeam History and African History. I think we could make something great. 👍🏾
Very high quality
educational series.
Love ALL your content! Can we get "MUST KNOW" video about african history from beginning to current time?
You have to be a patreon to give requests
Fantastic we need a part 2 of this
I’m Ghanaian Ashanti but now I understand why some East Africans speak Swahili and they understand each other.
This is great. I was born in Mombasa. Please do a video on Lamu. Asante sana!
The Swahili people of the East Coast of Africa for thousand of years exported gold and iron to India, Indochina, Indonesia and China. they imported silk clothes, ceramic vessels and iron weapons from those countries. The Swahili got their gold from the Monomotapa empire of Southern Africa,
@Nagaraja this is the most important. Everyone ignores the booming arab slave trade based at the east african coast and perpetuated by coastal locals on the in-landers.
@@PaddyKish254 to save islam from shame... islam has done more harm to black people than white guy ever did
@@lutufyodixon9997 naah they all did their fare share of damage but claiming Islam did the worst is hypocritical.
@@Vhlathanosh muslims are still doing in sudan,libya and Mauritania even today for more than 1400 years.
@@lutufyodixon9997 oh yeah, that I agree with. And now they're wiping out Madagascar.
I appreciate you brother.
Thank u, for your videos!
Btw the picture you put isnt of sultan said said its of his son bargash
Nice video but it's sad you didn't mentioned the influence of Kikongo language on Kiswahili. Both languages have a lot of similarities. In Kikongo mvita/vita means war.
he did
Swahili coast and Kongo coast had socio economic interactions for years. Doing trades and interactions.
Similarities are profound between these languages
I speak in tongues of Swahili and Hausa
Much love namaste 🙏
The language is just called Swahili. Ki-Swahili is a way of saying “that of Swahili” 😚🌺
Can you please do the history of Somalis 🇸🇴🇸🇴🇸🇴🇸🇴🇸🇴🇸🇴🇸🇴
It is interesting how Ancient Egyptians had contact with Somalis long time ago. And white supremasist said that their is not connection between sub saharan Africans 🙄
Somali and fulani are same
Abdulaiibaba Ibrahim Fulani are not SOMALI
Menelik II of Ethiopia not just Somalis. The whole of the horn as well. Don’t forget land of punt had deep connections to Egypt. Even much so that Egyptians believed their ancestors to originate from there.
@@visioday1814 Somalis are Puntites, the Kingdom Punt is modern day Somalia.
Love your videos man it makes me so proud to be African. Please do a video about the Kingdom of Congo
I am from Nairobi Kenya. Very informative Video. We run a site called African Explorer Magazine. We did piece on Swahili History. If you get time pass through and get to learn more about Africa. Maybe HomeTeam can get a few ideas on stories he can do on his channel.
Can you please do one on Ashantis of Ghana
Fante people too
Let’s make it *Akan , so that Ashanti’s, Fante’s and other groups can be considered.
Akans of Ghana and ivory coast
Say bruh, I would like to know the soft music playing in the background. Sounds really nice for relaxing or meditation or sleeping.
Who is doing the opening and closing? Amazing. As are these brief and clear history lessons. Thanks.
Very well researched home team.
You missed the best legend of all about the swahili coast the legend of the smart and forgiving and strong African king. The king that brought Islam to swahili coast and yes the people their are African and can still build structures the same way great video brother.
Another explanation is tha the term Wa-Swahili comes from the phrase "Wa siwa hili" which translates to "inhabitants of this island."
I saw another one, wa~ ziwa~ hili like a lake
But yours explanation is making more sense
Makes more sense than the Arab one.
Thanks for the video. To my Swahili brothers please confirm: "mshenzi" is a derogatory word that means "stupid", not slave. Mtumwa is servant. What's the Swahili name for slave?
A slave is mtwana in Swahili
Awesome video my brother
Very good home team I see you have discovered the Israelites scattered through out the four corners of the earth nice work
I think it would be helpful to clarify the substantial difference in slavery that existed in Africa & Asia to that of the slave trade purprotated by the Europeans. The latter is unprecedented in human history.
I just discovered your channel. I've watched a few of your videos and it's amazing how much time and effort you put into your research. I was wondering if you could do a video about Rwanda/Burundi. I know you've already done a video about the Tutsis of Rwanda. But I would greatly appreciate it if you could do another video focusing more on the cultural aspects of the two countries and any similarities they may have with other countries in Africa.
I'm from Rwanda myself and I sometimes wonder if there are traditions we share with others (other than Burundians). For example, in our culture, the concept of a family name isn't the norm and people in the family usually all have their own unique first AND last names. I have a Sudanese friend whose family seems to follow that tradition. Though, when I asked her about it once, she didn't seem up to discuss it (the kids all definitely have the same dad, so maybe I just caught her on a bad day) and I never got another opportunity to ask her again.
Anyways, please do the video if you have the time and are able to. Thanks for all your hard work!
elle19ism although I'm not HomeTeam History I also make African History videos and I love your comment. I agree, I think a video on Burundi would be VERY interesting and in fact I think I might do a video on it since not many people know about the country let alone the culture.
@@africanhistory1252 you know, when I say I'm from Rwanda, people either have no idea where it is or they say "oh it's that place where the genocide happened, right" with a look of pity in their eyes. Then I have to say it's mostly peaceful now. But when it comes to Burundi, most people don't know it even exists. But we have such rich cultures in both countries, that I wish more people knew about.
Also, I'll be sure to check out your videos.
@freddy njagi oh right. I haven't noticed that many similarities between Kikuyu and Kinyarwanda, but that's probably because I haven't been exposed to Kikuyu that much. It's so true about the accents though
@freddy njagi I live in the UK so they're not hard to find 😂 but I'm usually with them in situations where they're speaking Swahili (coz there are other East Africans) or just English. I rarely hear them speak Kikuyu
@freddy njagi no I don't speak it, so I'm usually lost when people around me are speaking it. I can pick out words but not enough to follow the conversation. I want to learn it though.
I have noticed that many Rwandans don't speak it. When they do, it's usually the older generations. I don't know why it's not more widespread in Rwanda, compared to Burundi for example
Thank you for this history, very educative.
Dope. Very informative.
Great video as always.
Awesome work.
Id love a movie about the swahili civilization architecture religion political system
Instead if another saturated Rome movie
🔥🔥🔥 as always!
Waswahili are not tribe but it is a language spoken mostly in East Africa coast as result of local ethnics groups to meet with foreigners along the coast they form common language for communication but mostly they retain their native language
03:48 Link between the Kongo Empire and the Swahili coast.
You’ll call anything an empire. I guess my cat is an empire
They never called themselves an empire stop being stupid and weird
I am Swahili Girl from Tanzania 🇹🇿
Mzee Mzima
So ni maana gani ya kuni jibu ivyo?
@@rehema2018 loosely means
Old enough man😊 its a sarcasm
Good video but this 'waswahili ' have their own tribes like mijikenda and giriama. Identifying with a language that everyones speaks, mostly it non-africans who have stayed that like to identify like that. I wish you had covered the actual tribes instead of an umbrella which is less significance especially to us people of african descent.
You do it.. if not satisfied.
@@80Rush This is my opinion and definitely not directed to you..feel free to pass it,you dont have to agree.
The Swahili are their own ethnic group. The Giriama are not Swahili, they are Mijikenda, which is a separate group from the Swahili
Ms. J
Swahili apart from being a language it's a culture not a tribe.
You should do good research swahili
It's not swahili its kiswahili. These are my people. Kiswahili didn't pick up Arab words it was arabs who added their language in kiswahili because of trade including Italian and many others languages were added not picked up.
I really appreciate your work. 😍
Baraka kwako.
Arab scholars including ibn khaldoun, Ibn Saeed Maghribi, ibn Batuta that visited east Africa distinguished the Somali coast from the swahili coast. The Arabs called the Somali coast as Eastern Berber (Berberul mashriq) to differentiate them from the northern Berbers in north Africa. They called the Swahili coast as Zanj. To this day the Arabs call Somali livestock that's exported to the Arabs like the goats for instance ganamul Berber (the goats of the Berbers in Arabic). And the name Berber (meaning tall dark and slim people) was given to Somalis by Greek mappers like Strabo who visited the land and witnessed the frankincense trade way before Islam but Somalis never took the name because in the Somali culture you're not animal to be branded by someone else. To this day the Italian Catholic church still buys the frankincense that's grown in East and north of Somalia. So no the Somali coast was not considered swahili however Swahili merchants as well as Arab, Persian and Indian came for trade.
Maybe you could do a shona video next. Great Zimbabwe has always fascinated me
Don't forget the Tikar people of Cameroon 🇨🇲 many of African Americans got Tikar blood mostly actors and actresses
I would love to see a piece on the the people who speak Lingala. I came across the language a few years ago and it sounded like the root of Japanese to me.
Interesting
There are strong ties between Ancient Africa (then called Ethiopia) and Asia. Asia was in those times considered to be part of Africa.
Batetela is a little tribe in Congo, speak lingala and tetela. Tetela sound really like Japanese lol way more than lingala and they eat like asians ( most of recipes are with rices/ mix of salt and sugar/pork chicken and fish) ... And they have same names has japanese lol 😃 my mom's name is Atato & Dad's name is Okita 😅🤗
For congolese people they tought that we're japanese descendant.
@@emmaatato9193 wow interesting
@@gsheverything_2716 yeah 😊😊
Mogadishu, Barawe, Marka, Kismayu, Ras-Kiamboni, Bajuni Islands in Somalia and Kenya, Lamu, Malindi, Mombasa, Tanga, Bagamoyo, Zanzibar (Unguja & Pemba), Lindi, Kilwa, Mafia, Ngazidja (Comoros), Sofala as well as part of Northern Mozambique are all Swahili cities. Somalis came from Ogaden and they invaded Mogadishu, Barawe, Marka and Kismayu during 14th century.
Congratulations for putting the records right.
The zanj rebellion happen in the 8th century it was a slave revolt against the abbasid caliphate
Bro I'm still waiting for my History, The Mandingos🙏🏾
I shall be glad to translate most of the ethnic words you quoted. They are Arabic words. If translated, you shall have all the explanations you need. The Swahilis, Bantus, Hausas, Tuaregs & Yorubas are all cross-bred with Arabs for over 3,000 years, well before Islam. I shall be glad to share our history with you.
When have Banytus, Yorubas or Hausas crossbred with Arabs? Some of you be saying anything.
Great work and content