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- Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere = AAP : Schriftenreihe des Kölner Instituts für Afrikanistik. Köln : Kölner Institut für Afrikanistik, 1985-2002.
--See also: Swahili forum. (Online), 1994 to present
- Allen, J. de V. Lamu town : a guide. 2nd ed. [Lamu, Kenya] : Allen, 1986. (41 p.)
- Allen, J. de Vere. Swahili origins : Swahili culture & the Shungwaya phenomenon. London : J. Currey ; Nairobi : East African Educational Publishers ; Athens : Ohio University Press, 1993. (272 p.)
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- Alpers, Edward A. The Indian Ocean in world history. New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]. (172 p.)
- Alpers, Edward A. Ivory and slaves : changing pattern of international trade in East Central Africa to the later nineteenth century. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1975. (296 p.)
--See also: E-book (Columbia only!)
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- Autorité et pouvoir chez les Swahili. [Edited by] Françoise Le Guennec-Coppens et David Parkin. Paris : Karthala, c1998. (262 p.)
- An Azanian trio : three East African Arabic historical documents. E-book. Translated and edited by James McL. Ritchie, Sigvard von Sicard. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
- Bang, Anne K. Islamic Sufi networks in the western Indian Ocean (c. 1880-1940) : ripples of reform. Leiden : Brill, [2014] (227 p.)
--See also: E-book (Columbia only!)
- Bang, Anne K. Sufis and scholars of the sea : family networks in East Africa, 1860-1925. London ; New York : Routledge, Curzon, 2003. (260 p.)
- Bennett, Norman Robert. The Arab state of Zanzibar : a bibliography. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1984. (231 p.)
- Bertoncini, Elena Zubkova...[et al.] Outline of Swahili literature : prose fiction and drama. 2nd ed., extensively rev. and enl. Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009. (500 p.)
--See also: 1989 ed.
- Bissell, William Cunningham. Urban design, chaos, and colonial power in Zanzibar. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2011. (378 p.)
--See also: E-book
- Brennan, James R. Taifa : making nation and race in urban Tanzania. Athens : Ohio University Press, c2012. (292 p.)
--See also: E-book (Columbia only!)
- Bwenge, Charles. The tongue between : Swahili & English in Tanzanian parliamentary discourse. München : Lincom Europa, 2010. (100 p.)
- Caplan, Patricia. African voices, African lives : personal narratives from a Swahili village. London ;
New York : Routledge, 1997. (267 p.)
--See also: E-book (Columbia only!)
- Chande, Abdin N. Islam, Ulamaa, and community development in Tanzania : a case study of religious currents in East Africa. San Francisco : Austin & Winfield, 1998. (285 p.)
- Chimerah, Rocha M. Kiswahili : past, present and future horizons. Nairobi, Kenya : Nairobi University Press, 1998. (152 p.)
- Chittick, H. Neville. Manda : excavations at an island port on the Kenya coast. Nairobi : British Institute in Eastern Africa, 1984. (258 p.)
- Contemporary issues in Swahili ethnography. Edited by Iain Walker. Abingdon, Oxon, UK : New York, NY, USA : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2017. (220 p.)
- Dammann, Ernst. Afrikanische Handschriften: T. 1. Handschriften in Swahili and anderen Sprachen Afrikas. Verzeichnis der orientalischen Handschriften in Deutschland ; Bd. 24. Stuttgart : F. Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden, 1993- [In German, an index on Swahili & other African language manuscript collections.]
- Dunia Yao - Utopia/Dystopia in Swahili fiction : in honour of Said A.M. Khamis. Edited by Clarissa Vierke & Katharina Greven. Köln : Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, [2016]. (232 p.) [Mostly in English.]
- El-Zein, Abdul Hamid M. Sacred meadows : a structural analysis of religious symbolism in an east African town. [Evanston, Ill.] : Northwestern University Press, 1974. (365 p.)
- Fabian, Johannes. Language and colonial power : the appropriation of Swahili in the former Belgian Congo, 1880-1938. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1986.
(206 p.)
--See also: E-book (Columbia only!)
- Fabian, Steven. Making identity on the Swahili coast : urban life, community, and belonging in Bagamoyo. Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2019]
--See also: E-book. (Columbia only!)
- Fair, Laura. Pastimes and politics : culture, community, and identity in post-abolition urban Zanzibar, 1890-1945. Athens : Ohio University Press ; Oxford : James Currey, 2001. (370 p.)
--See also: E-book (Columbia only!)
- Ferrari, Aurélia. Émergence d'une langue urbaine : le sheng de Nairobi. Louvain : Peeters, 2012. (264 p.)
- Garnier, Xavier. The Swahili novel: challenging the idea of 'minor literature. Oxford : James Currey, 2013. (195 p.) [English translation of the French (2006)]
- Geiger, Susan. TANU women : gender and culture in the making of Tanganyikan nationalism, 1955-1965.
Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann ; Oxford : James Currey ; Nairobi : E.A.E.P. ; Dar es Salaam : Mkuki Na Nyota, c1997. (217 p.)
- Gendered lives in the Western Indian Ocean : Islam, marriage, and sexuality on the Swahili Coast. Edited by Erin E. Stiles and Katrina Daly Thompson. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2015]
(406 p.)
--See also: E-book (Columbia only!)
- The global worlds of the Swahili : interfaces of Islam, identity and space in 19th and 20th-century East Africa. Edited by Roman Loimeier, Rüdiger Seesemann Berlin, Germany : Lit, c2006.
(409 p.)
- Habari ya English? : What about Kiswahili? : East Africa as a literary and linguistic contact zone. Edited by Lutz Diegner, Frank Schulze-Engler. Matatu series; no. 46. Leiden : Brill Rodopi, [2015]
(274 p.)
- Haddad, Adnan. L'arabe et le swahili dans la République du Zaïre : études islamiques (histoire et linguistique). Paris : Société d'édition d'enseignement superieur, c1983. (262 p.)
- Heine, Bernd and Karsten Legère. Swahili plants : an ethnobotanical survey. Köln : R. Köppe, c1995. (376 p.) [Mostly in English, with Swahili plant names.]
- Hirsch, Susan F. Pronouncing & persevering : gender and discourses of disputing in an African Islamic court. Language and legal discourse. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998. (360 p.)
--See also: Law Library copy
- Historical archaeology of Bagamoyo : excavations at the caravan-serai. Felix Chami ... [et al.]. Dar es Salaam : Dar es Salaam University Press, c2004. (77 p.)
- The history & conservation of Zanzibar Stone Town. Edited by Abdul Sheriff. London : J. Currey ; Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 1995. (151 p.)
- Horton, Mark. Shanga : the archaeology of a Muslim trading community on the coast of East Africa. London : The British Institute in Eastern Africa, c1996. (458 p.)
- Horton, Mark and John Middleton. The Swahili : the social landscape of a mercantile society. Oxford, UK ; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Publishers, 2000. (282 p.)
- Hurreiz, Sayed Hamid A. al-Muʾaththirāt al-ʻArabīyah fī al-thaqāfah al-Sawāḥilīyah fī Sharqī Afrīqiyā. Bayrūt : Dār al-Jīl, 1988. (143 p.) [In Arabic, on Swahili culture and Arab-East African relations.]
- Kagabo, José Hamim. L'Islam et les "Swahili" au Rwanda. Paris : Éditions de l'école des hautes études en sciences sociales, c1988. (276 p.)
- Kihore, Yared Magori. Tanzania's language policy and Kiswahili's historical background. [Khartoum] : University of Khartoum, Institute of African and Asian Studies, 1976. (34 leaves)
- Kim, Caleb Chul-soo. Islam among the Swahili in East Africa.
2nd ed. Nairobi, Kenya : Acton Publishers, 2016. (223 pages)
- Knowledge, renewal and religion : repositioning and changing ideological and material circumstances among the Swahili on the East African coast. Edited by Kjersti Larsen. Uppsala : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, c2009. (330 p.)
- Kresse, Kai. Philosophising in Mombasa : knowledge, Islam and intellectual practice on the Swahili coast. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press for the International African Institute, c2007.
(288 p.)
--See also: E-book--publisher; E-book--ebrary (Columbia only!)
- Kresse, Kai. Swahili Muslim publics and postcolonial experience. Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2018]. (237 p.)
- Kusimba, Chapurukha Makokha. The rise and fall of Swahili states. Walnut Creek, California : AltaMira Press, c1999. (236 p.)
- Laing, Stuart. Tippu Tip : ivory, slavery and discovery in the scramble for Africa. Surbiton, Surrey : Medina Publishing, 2017. (330 p.)
- Le Guennec-Coppens, Françoise. Femmes voilées de Lamu (Kenya) : variations culturelles et dynamiques sociales. Paris : Éditions Recherche sur les civilisations, 1983. (221 p.)
- Maho, J. F. and Bonny Sands. The languages of Tanzania : a bibliography. Göteborg : Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 2002. (428 p.)
- Maitland-Jones, J. The Old Town, Mombasa : a historical guide. Compiled from the original notes of J. McCrae by J. Maitland-Jones, J. Aldrick, and R. Macdonald. Mombasa : Friends of Fort Jesus, [1985] (35 p.)
- Massamba, David Phineas Bhukanda. Kiswahili origins and the Bantu divergence-convergence theory. Professorial inaugural lecture (Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam) ; no. 48. Dar es Salaam : Institute of Kiswahili Research, University of Dar es Salaam, 2007. (116 p.)
- Maw, Joan. Fire and lightning : language, affect and society in 20th century Swahili poetry. Wien : AFRO-PUB, 1999. (133 p.)
- Maw, Joan. Narrative in Swahili : sentence structure, intonation, and the storyteller. London : School of Oriental and African Studies, 1992. (107 p.)
- Mazrui, Alamin M. Swahili beyond the boundaries : literature, language, and identity. Research in international studies. Africa series ; no. 85. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2007. (206 p.)
--See also: E-book (Columbia only!)
- Mazrui, Alamin M. and Ibrahim Noor Shariff. The Swahili : idiom and identity of an African people. Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, 1994. (188 p.)
- Mazrui, Ali Al'Amin and Alamin M. Mazrui. Swahili state and society : the political economy of an African language. Nairobi : East African Educational Publishers ; London : James Currey, 1995.
(171 p. )
- Mbaabu, Ireri. Language policy in East Africa : a dependency theory perspective. Nairobi, Kenya : Educational Research and Publications (ERAP), 1996. (243 p.)
- Mbaabu, Ireri. New horizons in Kiswahili : a synthesis in developments, research, and literature. Nairobi : Kenya Literature Bureau, 1985. (229 p.)
- Middleton, John. African merchants of the Indian Ocean: Swahili of the East African Coast. Long Grove, Ill.: Waveland Press, c2004. (134 p.)
- Middleton, John. The world of the Swahili : an African mercantile civilization. New Haven, CT ; London : Yale University Press, 1992. (254 p.)
- Mtoro bin Mwinyi Bakari. The customs of the Swahili people : the Desturi za Waswahili of Mtoro bin Mwinyi Bakari and other Swahili persons. Edited and translated into English by J.W.T. Allen. Berkeley, California : University of California Press, c1981. (342 p.)
--See also: Burke Library copy
- Mugane, John M. The story of Swahili. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, in association with the Ohio University Center for International Studies, [2015]. (324 p.)
--See also: Ohio Open Library e-book ; EBSCO e-book
- Ntarangwi, Mwenda. Gender, performance, & identity : understanding Swahili cultural realities through songs. Trenton NJ : Africa World Press, c2003. (361 p.)
- Les nuits de Zanzibar : contes swahili. Traduits et présentés par Henry Tourneux ; d'après le texte original recueilli par Edward Steere (1870). Paris : Karthala, c1999. (189 p.) ,em>[In French only.]
- Nurse, Derek and Thomas J. Hinnesbusch. Swahili and Sabaki : a linguistic history. (With special addendum by Gerard Philippson.) Berkeley, California ; London : University of California Press, 1993.
(780 p.)
- Nurse, Derek and Thomas Spear. The Swahili : reconstructing the history and language of an African society, 800-1500. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c1984. (133 p.)
--See also: e-book
- Ohly, Rajmund. The Zanzibarian challenge : Swahili prose in the years 1975-1981. Windhoek, Namibia : The Academy, c1990. (186 p.)
- Orimoto, Chieko. Kanga collection = kanga kwa jumla = カンガコレクション. Dar es Salaam : Mkuki na Nyota, 2016. (108 p.) [In English, Swahili, and Japanese]
- Pawlowicz, Matthew. Archaeological survey and excavations at Mikindani, southern Tanzania : finding their place in the Swahili world. Oxford : BAR Publishing, 2017. (186 pages)
- Polomé, Edgar C. Language, society, and paleoculture : essays. Selected and introduced by Anwar S. Dil. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1982. (387 p.)
- Pouwels, Randall Lee. Horn and crescent : cultural change and traditional Islam on the East African coast, 800-1900. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1987.
(273 p.)
- Raab, Klaus. Rapping the nation : die Aneignung von HipHop in Tanzania. Berlin : Lit, 2006. (171 p. and accompanying CD "Bongo flava: Swahili rap from Tanzania") Texts in English, German, and Swahili
- Ricard, Alain. Ebrahim Hussein : théâtre swahili et nationalisme tanzanien. Paris : Karthala, c1998. (186 p.)
- Ricard, Alain. Le kiswahili : une langue moderne. Paris : Karthala, c2009. (153 p.)
- Robinson, Morgan J. A language for the world : the standardization of Swahili. Athens : Ohio University Press, 2022. (320 p.)
--See also: E-book
- Rollins, Jack D. A history of Swahili prose. Part 1. Leiden : E.J. Brill, 1983- (Vol. 1.)
- Romero, Patricia W. Lamu : history, society, and family in an East African port city. Princeton, NJ : Markus Wiener, c1997. (310 p.)
- Roy-Campbell, Zaline M. Empowerment through language : the African experience-- Tanzania and beyond. Trenton, NJ ; Asmara, Eritrea : Africa World Press, 2001. (223 p.)
- Russell, Joan. Communicative competence in a minority group : a sociolinguistic study of the Swahili-speaking community in the old town, Mombasa. Leiden : Brill, 1981. (262 p.)
- Sheriff, Abdul. Dhow cultures of the Indian Ocean : cosmopolitanism, commerce and Islam. New York : Columbia University Press, c2010. (351 p.)
- Sheriff, Abdul. Slaves, spices & ivory in Zanzibar : integration of an East African commercial empire into the world economy, 1770-1873. London : Currey ; Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 1987.
(297 p.)
- Siravo, Francesco. Zanzibar : a plan for the historic stone town. Geneva, Switzerland : Aga Khan Trust for Culture, c1996. (218 p.)
- Social memory, silenced voices, and political struggle : remembering the revolution in Zanzibar. Edited by William Cunningham Bissell, Marie-Aude Fouere. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Mkuki na Nyota Publishers Ltd in association with French Institute for Research in Africa, [2018]. (385 p.)
--See also: E-book
- Southern Africa and the Swahili world. Edited by Felix Chami and Gilbert Pwiti. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Dar es Salaam University Press, 2002. (138 p.)
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--See also: E-book (Columbia only!)
- Strobel, Margaret. Muslim women in Mombasa, 1890-1975. New Haven : Yale University Press, 1979. (258 p.)
--See also: Law Library copy ; E-book (Columbia only!)
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(348 p.)
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- Swartz, Marc J. The way the world is : cultural processes and social relations among the Mombasa Swahili. Berkeley, California : University of California Press, c1991. (350 p.)
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- Vamps and victims : women in Swahili literature. Edited by Elena Bertoncini- Zubkova. Koln : Rudiger Koppe Verlag ; c1996. (314 p.)
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- Wamitila, K. W. Archetypal criticism of Kiswahili poetry. Bayreuth : Bayreuth University ; London : Global, 2001. (245 p).
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--See also: E-book
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- World on the horizon : Swahili arts across the Indian Ocean. Curated and edited by Prita Meier and Allyson Purpura. Champaign, Illinois : Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, [2018]. (384 p.)
- Wynne-Jones, Stephanie. A material culture : consumption and materiality on the coast of precolonial east Africa. Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press 2016. (232 p.)
- The Zanzibar Protectorate law reports. 8 vols. Nairobi, Kenya : LawAfrica, [2009?]
- Zawawi, Sharifa. Kanga: the cloth that speaks. The Bronx, N.Y.: Azaniya Hills Press, c2005. (128 p.)