The Swahili Devisive Politics of Identity
Written by Prof Ibrahim Sharif Noor
This paper is a response to the criticisms raised by Mr. Muhammad bin Yusuf on the views I had presented on some Zoom discussions concerning some historical events as to who had arrived first on the East African Coast: was it the Arabs from Yemen or the Bantus from West Africa?
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