The Azanian Sea

Mweso, a Buganda variant of Bao Click links for  bao and hawalis Each player has 32 men. The object of the game is to capture al...

Laura Goffman is a Ph.D. student in Middle East and North African History at Georgetown University. She also holds an M.A. in Near Eastern S...

I was given the article from the Oman Observer, a well-known Omani newspaper, by a friend who is interested in my research topic. Its inte...

Martin Walsh's blog on East African history, culture, and ethnography is an unusual combination of travelogue, self-reflection, and quir...

Jonathon Glassman. War of Words, War of Stones: Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 201...

Jonathon Glassman. War of Words, War of Stones: Racial Thought and Violence in Colonial Zanzibar. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 201...

I've been in Muscat for two weeks now, conducting interviews and meeting different people who came back from Tanzania, Zanzibar, Kenya, ...

Greetings Azanian Sea readers, It has been a minute since I've been in the blogging game as I had responsibilities to take care of on th...

I feel embarassed saying how much I enjoyed this new book from anthropologist Mwenda Ntarangwi. It is not only a delight to read, it is that...

FROM boloji.com The Sidi community lives mostly in Gujarat (in western India), with smaller populations settled in the neighboring state of ...

On the Zanj: Everybody agrees that there is no people on earth in whom generosity is as universally well developed as the Zanj. These people...

Pambazuka - Africa: Google moves into Swahili Google has sponsored a contest to encourage students in Tanzania and Kenya to create articles ...

LAMU, Kenya — The evening call to prayer here is like a summons, for everyone on the island. As the sun dives toward the ocean, the Muslim r...

In Tanzania too there has been a raging debate over the introduction of the Kadhi’s courts in the legal and judicial system. Like in Kenya, ...

Paradise is a little book about a boy named Yusuf who grows into manhood in East Africa. As a coming of age story it is remarkably simple a...

The Standard Online Edition: Lamu fire: More than 2,500 residents out in the cold Shared via AddThis

Top Tanzanian Bureaucrats Choose To Enroll Children At Successful Turkish Schools Shared via AddThis

I couldn't have said it better! As someone who has had the privilege to sit in Dr. Voll's class, his thoughts are on point and very ...

Part 3 in a special series on Kiswahili Qu'ranic translation for The Azanian Sea Part 3: Ahmadiyya in East Africa and Kurani Tukufu In a...