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"A fine achievement, mixing original material, fresh insights, generally excellent use of sources, conciseness, and a highly readable style. As an introduction to how the history of an African society can be reconstructed from largely nonliterate sources, and to the Swahili in particular, it is almost a model work."--International Journal of African Historical StudiesSpear, Thomas G. is the author of 'Swahili Reconstructing the History and Language of an African Society, 800-1500', published 1985 under ISBN 9780812212075 and ISBN 081221207X.
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