As someone coming from Mombasa, I am glad to see such initiatives in ensuring the preservation of the Swahili culture. Tuwe na mijadala zaidi kuhusiana na uhifadhi wa mila na desturi za Waswahili
Im an Argentino 🇦🇷 and im VERY thankfull for this video, i love learning about other places and cultures, but here theres not much material about non-white cultures. This kind of videos are really good!
This is an excellent piece - it corrects many of the historical inaccuracies whilst also explaining Waswahili identity in contemporary terms. Can’t wait to see more of your work. Hongera!
I don’t care what anybody say Swahili speaking people are Africans not Arabs. It sounds like to me that these Swahili speaking people were Influenced by Arabs just like every other African descendent people throughout the world let’s not cause any confusion Swahili speaking people are indeed Africans who was influenced by outsiders. Yes some of them might be Arabs or even mix with Arabs and African but they are African people first with a unique culture
Very accurate history!!! Tanzanians will lose their minds, they can’t comprehend Kiswahili started in Kenya. That’s the problem with ujeuri, it bites back!
Asante sana.....this is the only true representation I have seen, heard, researched and read with the the true representation of who were/are the Waswahili and what is means.
Kazi Nzuri! This was excellent. Super helpful! I am in Mombasa on the Swahili Coast. While in Nairobi almost everyone speaks decent to excellent English, here many only speak Kiswahili, of which they are very proud of. They say they speak it better here than those in NRBI, which the folks there accept as true. The noun classes clobber me. I don't even really try hardly. I was encouraged when a professional colleague in NRBI admitted she can't even all the way follow them. But the straight forward pronunciation and WONDERFUL people here make it all so so worth it! Keep up the good work!
Thank you for this amazing information. As a msawhili I was never thought this in school. I did not know much about my culture except that arabs mixed with locals and arab slave trade.
In my opinion Waswahili never used to self-identify as Waswahili. They had individual local identities eg Waamu, Wamvita, Wapate etc. Waswahili as a term, in my opinion, includes these nationalities and assimilated Swahilis ie migrants from self-identify as Swahili by culture.
This is a nice, I like that you concluded that you are open for a discussion. I agree with you with you when you mention about Waswahili being the Native of most part of Kenya except for Lamu. Lamu has its own history. Would you mind sharing some details about Lamu, how are the Swahilis Natives of Lamu? Did you know that the Language spoken in Lamu was Arabic until after independence. That is when people started to shift to Swahili and if you look closely most Lamu Swahili Language is derived from Arabic language. Please share more about Lamu i am curious to know how the Swahili were natives of Lamu
@@naikiadexa1123 wrong before contact of the outside world bantu are native to the east africa coast no one was inhabiting until the bantus stop being bitter
...can you share with me a little info on the "fish like" design which is part of your background...as I trust much of what we see today has an Afrikan/Alkebulan origin , sometimes with meaning while one can be led to think a design is original to the european...thank you...
Habari! Nikona sueli mbili! 1. I was thinking that the Kenyans who spoke Swahili as a lingua franca were Swahili people. Is this incorrect? My new understanding from this video is that Swahili people are from the coast. 2. Along with the Indians and Arabs, are the white foreigners who settle into and live in Swahili culture considered Swahili? Asante sana, mwalimu!
Swahili is originally from congo, it’s not for Muslim or Arabic people, Muslim tried to change some words to Arabic from luck of pronunciation. It’s Bantu language.
Strange that no mention of the Bantu influence in the language, since it is the biggest part of the Swahili language, with Arab at around 30%. The Bantu people originated in the area around present day Cameroun, and migrated around 1500 from there, and reached as far as south-east Africa, in what is known as the Transkei. Studies of the languages confirm the affinity from what is called a Bantu language. Islam did not go far from the coast. The main trade of value from the interior in the past. was of slaves and ivory.
I did an ancestry test, I identify as being swahili too. Maybe a collaboration of other swahili people in one video sharing their ancestry results could be a great start.
@@firdausali8470 wow,..where did you take the DNA ancestry? I would like to. Am very anxious to know my roots. Am bajun from kiwayu( Simbambae) ..I really looking forward to take the DNA
A lot of referencing to Islam as part of being/becoming Swahili, yet many Swahilis one encounters in Kenyan coastal towns are not Muslim but are assimilated Swahili people who have retained their 'otherness' as you call it. Think Kikuyus, Luos & Kambas in Mpeketoni and Lamu. And the Giriama (Kilifi county largely) etc. You have described it well when talking about Tanzania. Great video!!
Assimilation means you take on not just the language, but the way of life. Yet the people you reference here still refer to themselves as their tribe during census and whenever asked. I am from Lamu and have never met a Kikuyu there who introduces themselves as Mswahili. Islam comes with the territory. Assimilation means you need to call yourself Mswahili and live like one. They don’t. Islam is in essence part of the assimilation for all Swahili’s except in Tanzania where there was forced political assimilation.
@@a.a.nassir8832 no one has always been any religion, so I don't understand the meaning of this statement. What is true the vast majority of swahili people are Muslim and the religion is intertwined with the culture
"This is not Helpful": What is helpful is / A course of bringing all of the "People of Color" together: I am from North America, my associates of Central America, South America, Austraila, Asia, the Caribean and the Pacific Rim WISH to join with our Mother Continent, AFRICA: IF WE SET THIS AS GOAL ONE - We can share the pass history of how everyone have gotten to the "NEW AFRICA" of Today.:
Prove that kiswahili is a mijikenda language from the coastal people of Kenya Ushahidi kua kiswahili kinatokana na lugha za kimijenda, kabila tisa zinazopatikana mwambao wa pwani mwa Kenya ua-cam.com/video/CZ59Vh7LsVw/v-deo.html
Swahili is Bantu language. 90 percentage of Swahili is Bantu. Original of that language is congo. Arab adopt this language.human started in east Africa. People are moving with language. Many people of Zanzibar are from mainland. When slave trade ends thus why remaining there. The first president of Zanzibar is from Malawi. His origin is from Malawi. All people of coastal are all Bantu. And they still speak they own language.
you champion detribalization and arabization (vis a vi islam) simultaneously. this is a double standard smh. arabs kept their identity because they've succeeded in forcing their identity on east Africans over centuries (to the arab benefit). Now they can easily slip in when they wish without detribalizing. but any Bantu has such a requirement, what madness is this?
Good start. Next time avoid delving into too much religious fantasy. Too much reference to the Middle Eastern religion detract from culture lovers interested in this unique East African language. Also, I am very surprised you did Not mention the Coastal Bantu sister languages to Kiswahili - Pokomo, Mijikenda etc. There can be NO discussion of Swahili language or origin without reference to these languages. Don't look down upon your closest relatives culturally, linguistically and DNA-wise. There is a tendency for Swahilis to go look for Asians and assign them too much importance or overstate their role in the formation of Kiswahili (Kingozi) which is a pure Bantu language. Even Arab contribution to Kiswahili is sketchy and counts for a mere 15% vocabulary in specific areas. In short, Kingozi /Kiswahili, is just Chonyi, Giriama or Pokomo - it's closest relatives. The so-called Swahili ethnicity(esp in Kenya and Zanzibar) has to de-colonize & emancipate themselves from Arab mental slavery by fully embracing their Bantu roots. Swahili just like Mijikenda languages has no linguistic difference whatsoever from the Bantu spoken in Malawi, Zimbabwe and parts of South Africa.
I'm from Zambia and Kiswahili sounds so much like Chichewa/Chinyanja, which are also spoken in Malawi and Mozambique. Chibemba and Chinsenga are similar too. Anyone fluent in those languages can understand it. I've read that most Arabic vocabulary in Kiswahili is directly from Omani Arabic dialect. Omanis colonised coastal region from the 17th century, and encouraged Arab immigration in the 19th century. Yet so called Swahili culture is far older, almost 2000 years old. Clearly, the deep Bantu roots are undermined and Arab overstated.
We have not been classified and mind you bantus are from the hinterlands and our locations had always been at the ocean even the great migration. So as a fisherman my ancestors cant be farmers. History has been corrupted and not all coastal people are swahilis,we know our history from arabic sources since swahili was written in arabic till late 19th century. History can be faked just like any discipline.
Swahili comes from arabic saahil meaning coastal people, the origin of name . kiswahili is the later version standardized for the british to easy relate to. Dont confuse swahili and kiswahili.
As someone coming from Mombasa, I am glad to see such initiatives in ensuring the preservation of the Swahili culture.
Tuwe na mijadala zaidi kuhusiana na uhifadhi wa mila na desturi za Waswahili
Wow, the "Wa Siwa hili" origin of _Swahili_ is very compelling, surprised I never head of it
Wooow ❤️We're all in this learning and unlearning process together. Thank you so much!
As a mswahili myself I loved watching this clip, and I honestly hope you continue your work with more episodes. The video was very informative 👌🏽👌🏽
Im an Argentino 🇦🇷 and im VERY thankfull for this video, i love learning about other places and cultures, but here theres not much material about non-white cultures. This kind of videos are really good!
Thank you for this knowledge amen praise be our lord 🙏 ❤
I'm looking forward to learning more about the Swahili. This is a great start. 👏👏👏👏👏👏
This is amazing!!!!!!! Shukran for all the work you're doing to share this knowledge!
This is an excellent piece - it corrects many of the historical inaccuracies whilst also explaining Waswahili identity in contemporary terms. Can’t wait to see more of your work. Hongera!
Great research! This is a masterpiece Binti Swahiliya
I cannot wait to learn more!!! Thank you for this!
That's very cool I didn't know about the bantu origin of the word swahili !
Asante sana. This is very comprehensive education.
I don’t care what anybody say Swahili speaking people are Africans not Arabs. It sounds like to me that these Swahili speaking people were Influenced by Arabs just like every other
African descendent people throughout the world let’s not cause any confusion Swahili speaking people are indeed Africans who was influenced by outsiders. Yes some of them might be Arabs or even mix with Arabs and African but they are African people first with a unique culture
Very well said
Yes
Very accurate history!!! Tanzanians will lose their minds, they can’t comprehend Kiswahili started in Kenya. That’s the problem with ujeuri, it bites back!
Very informative, subscribed.
Kazi nzuri
Asante sana.....this is the only true representation I have seen, heard, researched and read with the the true representation of who were/are the Waswahili and what is means.
being swahili is what definites us as one people. wami mtru(mutu) wa chisua(kisua) ya maore.
Je suis de l'île Mayotte donc je suis swahili.🇾🇹🇾🇹🇾🇹
Very informative. Swahili is my first language and I'm glad to learn of its rich history. Thank you for this initiative.
Well articulated. Waiting for the coming episodes. Never too late to learn. Ahsante sana 👏
Highly informative and entertaining too. Can't wait for more videos!
Great video. Thank you for creating this!
Wonderful and well done. More please.
great work on this👏🏿... you've just woken lots of curiosity- looking forward to learn some more👍🏿
Kazi Nzuri! This was excellent. Super helpful! I am in Mombasa on the Swahili Coast. While in Nairobi almost everyone speaks decent to excellent English, here many only speak Kiswahili, of which they are very proud of. They say they speak it better here than those in NRBI, which the folks there accept as true. The noun classes clobber me. I don't even really try hardly. I was encouraged when a professional colleague in NRBI admitted she can't even all the way follow them. But the straight forward pronunciation and WONDERFUL people here make it all so so worth it! Keep up the good work!
So informative! Thanks for doing this.
Very enlightening. Keep up the good work. Looking forward to more Binti Swahiliya.🙏
Excellent. Looking forward to the next episode.
Very well done! Looking forward to the rest of the lessons!
I have been schooled on the Swahili. Asante. Twende kazi!
Love this video Nasra! A true act of corrective surgery. More please!!!
Thank you for this amazing information. As a msawhili I was never thought this in school. I did not know much about my culture except that arabs mixed with locals and arab slave trade.
Swahili are Bantu with a little bit of persian, arab and indian admixturesthat came later in History through trade.
Wonderful content. Looking forward for more
The Changamwe are always forgotten.This reminds me of my lower primary classes.
In my opinion Waswahili never used to self-identify as Waswahili. They had individual local identities eg Waamu, Wamvita, Wapate etc. Waswahili as a term, in my opinion, includes these nationalities and assimilated Swahilis ie migrants from self-identify as Swahili by culture.
Very informative my sister. Educate us on our culture
Asanteni sana marafiki! Nimefurahi sana sababu na kazi huu!
Love this, we'll done. It's time we wrote and affirmed our own narrative.
Great video thanks
So proud to identify myself as a kiMvita Swahili 🇰🇪🇰🇪
This is a nice, I like that you concluded that you are open for a discussion. I agree with you with you when you mention about Waswahili being the Native of most part of Kenya except for Lamu. Lamu has its own history. Would you mind sharing some details about Lamu, how are the Swahilis Natives of Lamu? Did you know that the Language spoken in Lamu was Arabic until after independence. That is when people started to shift to Swahili and if you look closely most Lamu Swahili Language is derived from Arabic language. Please share more about Lamu i am curious to know how the Swahili were natives of Lamu
Swahili people talk kiswahili.
Those people were probably somalis.
Lamu is where bantu, Arabs and somalis met. Some bajuni words come from maay language of southern somalia
They don't want to accept that Swahili was never native to East Africa. They are migrants who mixed with the locals.
@@naikiadexa1123 wrong before contact of the outside world bantu are native to the east africa coast no one was inhabiting until the bantus stop being bitter
lucid talk , love it
Great video.
Very informative. Looking forward to learning more.
Found this one twitter. Looking forward to more information
Well done. Keep them coming
...can you share with me a little info on the "fish like" design which is part of your background...as I trust much of what we see today has an Afrikan/Alkebulan origin , sometimes with meaning while one can be led to think a design is original to the european...thank you...
Thank you
This was fun to watch 👍👍
Nice !
Great informative content!
Great stuff! 👌🏾
Awesome content. Please use your name in the future just for credit purposes. Congratulations on this
The name of the IS included... she says this is @swahiligal and the logo on the video is @hiistoriya
@@mbajuni Which name?
More please!
Pls how can I get history of the Galla (Wagala) now referred as Ormas. Pls
Wonderful
What happened to the Swahili kingdom?? I would like to know if there's a research on the original Swahili people
Good job
Thanks so much so the swahili people are not just mix african correct
Habari! Nikona sueli mbili!
1. I was thinking that the Kenyans who spoke Swahili as a lingua franca were Swahili people. Is this incorrect? My new understanding from this video is that Swahili people are from the coast.
2. Along with the Indians and Arabs, are the white foreigners who settle into and live in Swahili culture considered Swahili?
Asante sana, mwalimu!
This is so cool I recently also got interested in learning about my own Zimbabwean culture and was shocked. My life is a lie 😂😂😂
Were did you see that ndiri Zimbabwean too..I also want to learn
@@urrraight2270 its the name bro we Zimbabweans know each other 🤣
@@ymmusvosvi oh ya we do
I am Swahili and have arab decent, is it okay for me to call myself Afro-Arab?
You are African, Arabs wouldn’t even consider you Arab.
Swahili is originally from congo, it’s not for Muslim or Arabic people, Muslim tried to change some words to Arabic from luck of pronunciation. It’s Bantu language.
Swahili mpoo tupeane bas like tujuane
Mine eyes have seen the light
This!!!
Wa-siwa-hili....
Strange that no mention of the Bantu influence in the language, since it is the biggest part of the Swahili language, with Arab at around 30%. The Bantu people originated in the area around present day Cameroun, and migrated around 1500 from there, and reached as far as south-east Africa, in what is known as the Transkei. Studies of the languages confirm the affinity from what is called a Bantu language.
Islam did not go far from the coast. The main trade of value from the interior in the past. was of slaves and ivory.
Have you considered doing or have done ancestry DNA for the swahili people? It would be interesting to know.
I did an ancestry test, I identify as being swahili too. Maybe a collaboration of other swahili people in one video sharing their ancestry results could be a great start.
@@firdausali8470 wow,..where did you take the DNA ancestry? I would like to. Am very anxious to know my roots. Am bajun from kiwayu( Simbambae) ..I really looking forward to take the DNA
They are Bantu with a little bit of persian, arab and indian admixtures that came later in History through trade.
Swahíli is my name😊
swahili ati siwa hili?sawahili ni people of the coast
You had 225 likes. Mine is 226
Comorians where are you??
Right here 🙃
Here bro. But we are french speakers.
@@badaricolie696 Gamdjouwo moinama cha lé vidéo giyo shingéréza yapvo tsi diwiza shizougou🤣
@@imanea.4018 hihihi cha chi ngereza yi cho chi zungu tsena. Wa dari na Nairobi wo hamba mgereza wola mzungu.
A lot of referencing to Islam as part of being/becoming Swahili, yet many Swahilis one encounters in Kenyan coastal towns are not Muslim but are assimilated Swahili people who have retained their 'otherness' as you call it. Think Kikuyus, Luos & Kambas in Mpeketoni and Lamu. And the Giriama (Kilifi county largely) etc. You have described it well when talking about Tanzania. Great video!!
Assimilation means you take on not just the language, but the way of life. Yet the people you reference here still refer to themselves as their tribe during census and whenever asked. I am from Lamu and have never met a Kikuyu there who introduces themselves as Mswahili. Islam comes with the territory. Assimilation means you need to call yourself Mswahili and live like one. They don’t. Islam is in essence part of the assimilation for all Swahili’s except in Tanzania where there was forced political assimilation.
@@mbajuni Swahilis have not always been Muslim.
@@a.a.nassir8832 no one has always been any religion, so I don't understand the meaning of this statement. What is true the vast majority of swahili people are Muslim and the religion is intertwined with the culture
@@a.a.nassir8832 Swahili tribes existed way before Islam.
@@HisFinEco Most of them are muslim but not all. The swahili tribes and their culture existed way before Islam.
But no one is Swahili. Each one has is language before Swahili but no one is Swahili
Kabisa
"This is not Helpful": What is helpful is / A course of bringing all of the "People of Color" together:
I am from North America, my associates of Central America, South America, Austraila, Asia, the Caribean and
the Pacific Rim WISH to join with our Mother Continent, AFRICA: IF WE SET THIS AS GOAL ONE - We can
share the pass history of how everyone have gotten to the "NEW AFRICA" of Today.:
00:10 "The Swahili identity [...] covers [...] a homogeneous yet diverse community". I think it can be either homogeneous or diverse, not both
It is Said that The Swahili language is actually Ancient Hebrew....
Prove that kiswahili is a mijikenda language from the coastal people of Kenya
Ushahidi kua kiswahili kinatokana na lugha za kimijenda, kabila tisa zinazopatikana mwambao wa pwani mwa Kenya
ua-cam.com/video/CZ59Vh7LsVw/v-deo.html
Swahili is Bantu language. 90 percentage of Swahili is Bantu. Original of that language is congo. Arab adopt this language.human started in east Africa. People are moving with language. Many people of Zanzibar are from mainland. When slave trade ends thus why remaining there. The first president of Zanzibar is from Malawi. His origin is from Malawi. All people of coastal are all Bantu. And they still speak they own language.
you champion detribalization and arabization (vis a vi islam) simultaneously. this is a double standard smh. arabs kept their identity because they've succeeded in forcing their identity on east Africans over centuries (to the arab benefit). Now they can easily slip in when they wish without detribalizing. but any Bantu has such a requirement, what madness is this?
Good start. Next time avoid delving into too much religious fantasy. Too much reference to the Middle Eastern religion detract from culture lovers interested in this unique East African language.
Also, I am very surprised you did Not mention the Coastal Bantu sister languages to Kiswahili - Pokomo, Mijikenda etc. There can be NO discussion of Swahili language or origin without reference to these languages.
Don't look down upon your closest relatives culturally, linguistically and DNA-wise.
There is a tendency for Swahilis to go look for Asians and assign them too much importance or overstate their role in the formation of Kiswahili (Kingozi) which is a pure Bantu language.
Even Arab contribution to Kiswahili is sketchy and counts for a mere 15% vocabulary in specific areas.
In short, Kingozi /Kiswahili, is just Chonyi, Giriama or Pokomo - it's closest relatives.
The so-called Swahili ethnicity(esp in Kenya and Zanzibar) has to de-colonize & emancipate themselves from Arab mental slavery by fully embracing their Bantu roots.
Swahili just like Mijikenda languages has no linguistic difference whatsoever from the Bantu spoken in Malawi, Zimbabwe and parts of South Africa.
Yes.
I'm from Zambia and Kiswahili sounds so much like Chichewa/Chinyanja, which are also spoken in Malawi and Mozambique. Chibemba and Chinsenga are similar too. Anyone fluent in those languages can understand it. I've read that most Arabic vocabulary in Kiswahili is directly from Omani Arabic dialect. Omanis colonised coastal region from the 17th century, and encouraged Arab immigration in the 19th century. Yet so called Swahili culture is far older, almost 2000 years old. Clearly, the deep Bantu roots are undermined and Arab overstated.
Swahili is just a Language in East Africa…there’s no tribe as Swahili
Any spoken language has an origin. So Swahili was born within coastal tribes
Wa siwa hili is a made up theory.Just throw it in the dust bin
Not really bantus,
What do u mean
We have not been classified and mind you bantus are from the hinterlands and our locations had always been at the ocean even the great migration. So as a fisherman my ancestors cant be farmers. History has been corrupted and not all coastal people are swahilis,we know our history from arabic sources since swahili was written in arabic till late 19th century. History can be faked just like any discipline.
@@omarAhmed-re3ms what is race and where are u from? Swahili is a Bantu language
Swahili comes from arabic saahil meaning coastal people, the origin of name . kiswahili is the later version standardized for the british to easy relate to. Dont confuse swahili and kiswahili.
@@omarAhmed-re3ms it seems u r the one who is confused.
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