History Of The Swahili

[@adonismoncrief8497]

Swahili culture, style and architecture is beautiful.

[@thecargotsold]

I speak fluent Kiswahili. Mombasa was founded in the 10th Cen. AD and yes the name was Mvita. This dude knows this stuff... kudos

[@louisotieno4712]

Why,didn't you say that in Swahili

[@joshuasindiga1788]

...coming from Kenya , Mombasa born,this is the most accurate denotation of the #WaSwahili for the coast of Kenya. They spread from the Coast of Somali to the coast of Mozambique including Lamu,Zanzibar,Pemba,Mafia,Kilwa,Comoros,such a Great people. (some people say Kiswahili means people of this/the island... watu wa ziwa hili- zwahili )

[@lawtraf8008]

I'm comorian

[@brooklyndaima6935]

I’ve been waiting for you to talk about US 😁 I feel like you have been forgetting us in your vids mostly when you talked about East Africa . We are here too 💪🏾

[@chadtep7571]

Who is us?

[@chadtep7571]

Just curious miss lady.

[@kibweking9135]

Kiswahili people

[@brooklyndaima6935]

Chad Tep Obviously the people he’s talking about in the video 🤷🏾‍♀️

[@kaylam8707]

Tribe of Judah!! 🙌

[@mysteriousdaloner864]

Africa has some beautiful exotic melanin people. Yes indeed. ✊

[@JoseyTurn17]

That's strange to call them exotic, melanin. They are the origin people of the Land, not a philosophical idea of a new inbred society.

[@salvationismines1]

@@JoseyTurn17 i was just thinking the same.

[@nicolarollinson4381]

Very similar in a appearance to some Melanesian people, for example Papuans.

[@nicolarollinson4381]

@@JoseyTurn17 I would suggest that he or she has misunderstood the meaning of exotic

[@bolayul291]

Yes indeed we truly do

[@tarikmoor3309]

Thank you for your time and effort. It has not gone unnoticed. We are passing all of this information down to our children. We R Moor👌🇲🇦

[@smbonner22]

Tarik Moor hg

[@lawtraf8008]

you are

[@vivianwadida3292]

Swahili is now an official U. N. language. It's a beautiful language, extremely rich in vocabulary. In it, is a mixture of languages spoken by all early settlers/traders in E. Africa like English, Portuguese, Hindu , Arabic and local dialects. Hollywood movies pick Swahili words and songs in most scripts like The Lion King,: Simba - Lion, Hakuna Matata - no worries/problem, Jambo which is sf Hujambo(singular) or Hamjambo(plural) - Hello.

[@WitchDoctor420]

Heros and their people. I would always salute their people. I fall blame for some of my people. But in my family, your people (my heros) are always welcome in. I salute your people! From deep and mindful respect. HM3 Towell

[@lilmizzije]

'Hakuna Matata' has been trade marked by Walt Disney☕️🐸

[@shiryuu1850]

For real?

[@lilmizzije]

@@shiryuu1850 yep.

[@lordmow7572]

Flyboy it means there is no problems

[@lilmizzije]

Lumani no problem sis

[@thebridge5483]

What the hell, is that even legal?

[@megaoldskool76]

Beautifully done! Beautiful people! Best team ever.... THE HOMETEAM👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@anthonywest4173]

SWAHILI PEOPLE ARE BEAUTIFUL AND MAJESTIC.

[@lilianluhasi311]

Exactly

[@seahlilly]

Liked this immediately cos I'm Tanzanian :)

[@Abduldoctor]

I am from your next door neighbour, Kenya 😃

[@jpat989]

Check out Traveling Sista in Tanzania. She married a local man from Arusha. They live there now.

[@rehema2018]

Monica Mjema Same

[@joywagofya7886]

Monica Mjema tanzaniaan here

[@bahatimoa]

me too

[@bantuvoicemuchaikinuthia2536]

I think east Africans can really tell you the swahili of E.Africa.. We are just a Bantu creaole that a common language every bantu feels the mutually intelligibility of Bantu Swahili.... swahili goes all the way to Congo....

[@jeswazwadi7049]

but the congo swahili is something else like batoto ,bushiku hahahaha

[@The461Official]

@@jeswazwadi7049 you're not funny.

[@jeswazwadi7049]

@@The461Official I was to two people

[@jeswazwadi7049]

@Mzee Mzima hahahha am female and very clean and it is not serious I am Congolese and am being real we have a horrible swahili,the worst swahili in Africa actually

[@jeswazwadi7049]

@Mwaniki Mwaniki you are the first Kenyan i've heard saying this mostly Kenyans make fun of our batoto and bushiku but ok,i think Tanzanians have a beautiful Swahili and am Congolese

[@RK7LifeLine]

I am a muswahili, you forgot to mentioned that we expanded to the Eastern Congo

[@aliciamomat7963]

Even the south, kongolo, kalemi as well ,I am originally from there

[@nimijumapili4321]

@@aliciamomat7963 babembe tribe?

[@No.24Baraka]

No such tribe in Congo the people only exist in Kenya, Tanzania and Comoros, you just speak a broken Kiswahili dialect

[@manassezengo4548]

​@@No.24Baraka all the East coast of Congo are all Swahili folk due to their legacy and more

[@blessedhonored3363]

This is for my people, my African melanin poping people although it's sad what happened to us but Yahweh saw us through. Love all my People

[@Noone-dc9si]

I have been looking for a channel like this forever thanks

[@lt2672]

Hi Hometeam! I just wanted to correct you on something minor. The Somali cities like Mogadishu and Brava were Somali and not Swahili. This is a common misconception. Great video BTW.

[@safuu202]

Right! Brava and Mogadishu have been Somali since forever. Those cities may have been encompassed within the Swahili sphere of influence such as the Shangani district within central Mogadishu but yes that assertion was very wrong.

[@charlesotieno2658]

That would imply that there are no bantu in somali. This is almost true due to the wagalla expansion. (mgala muue lakini haki yake mpe)

[@NegSteLucie]

Charles Otieno There are many Bantu in Somalia.

[@abubakarrahim8482]

500 hundred 💯 island of Bajuni people streaching from Kismayu to Pate island.

[@abubakarrahim8482]

@@safuu202 if you read The invention of somalia 🇸🇴 you will see the meaning of mogadishu. And it was the capital of BANADIR region streaching from mogadisho to raskiamboni. All the names you will see are swahili and Arabic.

[@rossjn9885]

This was one of my favorite videos yet. Love your work. Can you do the Mende people next?

[@hometeamhistory806]

I'll try and get to that one in the future

[@kariukikiragu]

Once again, excellent work. Bless you. This video was like reliving my primary class 6 history lessons in 1972 only in much more African-oriented detail. The take home from those lessons to little boys and girls was that the east African coast was all about Arabs such as Seyyid Said and Seyiid Bargash, the Portuguese and the British. Great the Portuguese are left out of the narration altogether. Some of us learnt latter that this was not so and this video seals the story with authority. Now, Kiswahili, currently with probably 250 m speakers from South Sudan to Angola, is destined to be the official language of Africa - Wont those Waswahili feel proud to have bequeathed us such a gift? We are grateful to them and will tell them as much on my next trip to Mvita. Asante sana. (No need for translation) Baraka nyingi (test question for translation - 5 marks)

[@kariukikiragu]

Certainly, Bw. Njagi, there is need to avoid what might translate as chauvinism However, there are many reasons for Kiswahili being a front-runner with reasons such as the three given below: .1 One of the proponents is Julius Malema and Kiswahili is about to enter the South African school curriculum. .2 In terms of the number of speakers, Hausa, Fon and Kiswahili are the leading African languages. The first two are associated with large nations, ethnicities if you will, but Kiswahili has risen to the level of a lingua franca understood my more than 200 African nations. .3 It is already the only African official language in the African Union.

[@kariukikiragu]

Apart from yours, I have heard no complaints, Bw Njagi. However my opinion bears the same weight as yours. Therefore, let your opinion be known by those who might act on it. There is a relatively new institution of the African union dealing in languages which recently opened a translations laboratory either in Niamey or Ouagadougou. I looked but cannot find it. I would suspect such questions would be referred to them.

[@kariukikiragu]

Mbona wasikusikize? Huu ni muunagano wa watu wa Afrika bila kubagua umri au jinsia. Na tena, wanajihusisha sana vijana kame wewe. Kwa hivyo, ukiuliza swali, watasikia Waulize, mjadala mzuri waweza kuzinduka hapo.

[@kariukikiragu]

Waeleze hayo. Watakusikia Wakiniuliza mabo ya uahndis na ujenzi, nitawaeleza @freddy njagi

[@kariukikiragu]

Hapo sikubaliani nawe hata kidogo. Mungano wa Afrika ni wetu sisi, uwanja ni wako, unamawaidha na pia ujasiri. Kwa hivyo usingoje, usisite. Tafuta kile chuo cha lugha nilikuelaza hapo awali, ama pia wizara ya muungao inayohuiska na mabo ya kimila na utamaduni kwa mtandao, kasha uwatumie barua fupi. Dakika kumi tu! Usikate tama, Njagi.

[@shadora]

I can't believe how little I knew of the Swahili even though we share a country. We should be taught of the origins of our tribes in school

[@chadtep7571]

I'll love to see the Hausa people profiled. Love their architecture.

[@allegedlyallegedly3183]

Love ur videos so much! Pls Do a video about Igbo people of Nigeria and there History. And the Biafran Country

[@sidmorgan3698]

Igbos play prominently in u.s history so-called "African Americans" are mostly Igbo and are awakening to this fact. ALL PRAISE DUE UNTO YAH! KUM BA YAH HALLELU-YAH FOREVERMORE!!

[@freetownmkteer]

Sid Morgan cut it out! You are pseudo Hebrew Isrealite and there are fools such as some Igbos that believe they are white Hebrews that were burnt by the sun. This stupid belief directly ties into the Biafran War and who came to their rescue. And no most African American aren’t Igbos fool they are a mix of navy West African tribes from Akan, Mandingo, Mende, Yoruba, Igbo etc......

[@allegedlyallegedly3183]

@@freetownmkteer why are u pained by his openion? It a free world, and everybody has a freedom of belief. If u disagree with him, there are better ways to express it.

[@ShangosAx]

I second this @hometeamhistory. My Y chromosome has been traced back to the Igbo of Nigeria. I’d like to know more of them.

[@allegedlyallegedly3183]

@@ShangosAx 😭😭 My Brother Nice to meet you.

[@NoCompromiseMedia]

HAUSA people next please home team!!!! It's rich history with Queen Amina

[@NoCompromiseMedia]

@Mz Tiyahs Gaming & Vlog I'm of the HAUSA tribe of Nigeria

[@abdulazizbature2615]

I'm hausa too

[@rasaroots6309]

Just in time for Kwanzaa! ❤️🖤💚

[@rimun5235]

@MBOYA Ogutu Most Africans don't know what Kwanzaa is. Also, as a Swahili speaker, I found it strange. Why would you create a holiday not even related to your ancestors? It has East African principles and an East African language when black people are West Africans... It would be like someone of German ancestry in America started celebrating an Italian holiday with an Italian language...

[@SlugSage]

@MBOYA Ogutu Beautiful response bro.

[@anthonywest4173]

Rimu N JUST STOP HATING! UNITE DON'T DIVIDE!

[@haloe2233]

Kwanza is some stupid colonial lie, well done for forgetting your ancestors and serving the white man you uncle tom.

[@sylvianamalwa558]

We mjinga unasema Nini?

[@charlesotieno2658]

Swahili language is a derivative of the upper and lower pokomo people, who live close to the bajuni, an older bantu population. They boated to the lamu archipelago and created the first swahili cities.

[@joykamiza2593]

It was known as kingozi.

[@lutufyodixon9997]

Please elaborate more on this

[@lordluvsme9378]

Beautiful people, thank you for the briefing. So it's more than just a language, they are a people

[@quietatse]

I'm a descendant of the Swahili people, Tanzania.

[@Peterblack12]

Za familia?

[@quietatse]

@@Peterblack12 Nzuri ndugu, leta habari?

[@Peterblack12]

@@quietatse salama

[@Peterblack12]

@@quietatse i'm trying kujifunza swahili

[@quietatse]

@@Peterblack12 You're doing great, keep at it. Hongera.

[@sakurakou2009]

Rwanda made swahili their offical languge , finally african country deconolize themselves of their conolizers languge and back to origins 😍

[@Firefox-dn1pd]

Swahili is not their mothertongue. Its a foreign language. Kinyarwanda is their mothertongue.

[@sakurakou2009]

@@Firefox-dn1pd I am not very familar with rwanda ethical demography but I am sure many of them speak swahili that why they choose to make it offical languge , and by doing so it will help find more job approtunities in neighboring countries that also speak swahili , and from what I understood they added swahili to the offical languges not make it only one .

[@carpleso4997]

My grandmother is from Rwanda and My grandfather from Zanzibar and i can tell you that Rwanda has its own languege but they also speak Swahili and the languege that they speak is simulare to swahili

[@amosmunezero9958]

The whole east Africa should promote Kiswahili. In my country Burundi, there are a lot of people who speak it as their second language, some even as their first like myself due to being born along the lake Tanganyika coastal areas.

[@emadabdullahsaidmohamedalh4917]

I am a Rwandan ! We speak kinyarwanda Swahili is our second language I myself speak fluent Swahili From Kigali nyamijyosi( mtoto wakazi) nituebwe

[@sulaimaanahmad]

brother...i love your videos. 🎥 that's coming from a proud yoruba! 😁

[@sulaimaanahmad]

@Neon Dawn yes...i'm also a muslim, so would it be more acceptable if my name was written with the latin alphabet??! 😕

[@sulaimaanahmad]

does that make me less yoruba? i'm actually of nigerian paternity 🇳🇬 ghanaian maternity 🇬🇭 and some amazigh (berber) 🇲🇦 background, but...born and raised in america. 🇺🇸

[@professionalhacker2834]

@@sulaimaanahmad Sulayman Ahmed Masha Allah bruh I'll be looking forward to learn Yoruba culture insha Allah

[@sulaimaanahmad]

@@professionalhacker2834 إن شاء ﺍﻟﻠـﻪ (inshaa allah) 👍

[@markkuuss]

@Neon Dawn says the guy writing his name with Latin Alphabet

[@lakeishaodinga2068]

Thank you so much for this accurate video. I'm not Swahili myself but I am a Kenyan who's lived in Mombasa all my life and I didn't even know some of this stuff myself 😂

[@gloriaklein4706]

Damn really

[@hardbone4536]

Luba ppl. Alamo known as Maluba. Kongo Kinshasa stand up. Great resume brother

[@leboyemichael4733]

The best on KZbin

[@africanhistory1252]

leboye Michael if u enjoy this channel you may enjoy my channel too. I make animated videos on African History. Check it out.

[@veinsofafricanblood7519]

@@africanhistory1252 I just sub make me proud

[@arushanioshaka5600]

I hope you do the Zulus Hutus Twa Igbos Hausas Tauregs Xhosa and shona peoples

[@heraldloshi1864]

Mimi Mswahili hapa,🇰🇪 na 🇹🇿.Twajivunia uswahili wetu.

[@hudaasaalim1333]

Congolese are not swahilis. They learned swahili when they were taken to coast as slaves. When slavery was abolished those who returned back to congo called themselves wangwana meaning waungwana (not slaves anymore) there swahili is total different from cost swahili they are just using some words of swahili.

[@the6freddyfred618]

hudaa saalim you stupid Swahili is also official language in congo

[@hudaasaalim1333]

@@the6freddyfred618 yeah very stupid cause kiswahili is my mother tongue. But you lot should keep your lingala as your so called official language.

[@hudaasaalim1333]

@@Belb3 🙏

[@bobmbeki2650]

Mwan'a Nkisi and Shehele Mvita were Kongo people!

[@msg653]

@@Belb3 lol I have always said this😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🙈 LMAO Kiswahili ya mubaya!!! When I come across them and they speak Swahili I cant help but try hold my laughter in coz wow 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Even though I'm a 'Diaspora' and my mother Tongue is Swahili,it can never sound like theirs

[@TheGanjaGodShow]

Kiswahili is going to be the new language for all Africans to communicate on the continent and Worldwide

[@genuinediasporan6661]

KUSHUM PENG , that will be a good idea. But then it’s not the most popular African language. Fula language which is nomadic is the most popular. It ran across several countries and the next after the foreign languages of the colonisers is Yoruba. Swahili is popular in East Africa,but not North or West Africa or South. Each region has its own popular languages.

[@georgeorwell3532]

Ebonics is better

[@beanladen5726]

@freddy njagi Your A Dumbass Kenya ...Swahili Is Another Arabic...No Body Will Want To Speak A Foreign Language

[@blockverseinsights]

@@beanladen5726 lol do your research please. Swahili is very african.

[@blockverseinsights]

@@beanladen5726 do your research fool

[@m.a5122]

swahili love !!!!!! lamu my best place ever home . is where we belong .

[@alom1807]

This is great. I was born in Mombasa. Please do a video on Lamu. Asante sana!

[@fallenskyshomesteadingandp2528]

Another great video bruh keep them coming.

[@dothehardthing8352]

Swahili being the biggest and fastest growing African lingua franca is like 95% original African coastal language and only 5% foreign influence. People of other cultures i:e Arabs and the rest, who had interaction with the coastal parts and had a little bit of their language assimilate into Swahili like to over estimate their importance and influence of their culture into Swahili.

[@Vhlathanosh]

Where are you getting this lingua franca shit from?

[@zak.886]

Mogadishu and baraawe aka brava is not a swahili settlement mogadishu was founded by the hawiye and baraawe aka brava was founded by tunni clansmen

[@the7thage576]

Love ALL your content! Can we get "MUST KNOW" video about african history from beginning to current time?

[@malcomdiene7745]

You have to be a patreon to give requests

[@officialslimskank4978]

Love your videos man it makes me so proud to be African. Please do a video about the Kingdom of Congo

[@antoasap8644]

Fantastic we need a part 2 of this

[@africanprincess21]

Nice video but it's sad you didn't mentioned the influence of Kikongo language on Kiswahili. Both languages have a lot of similarities. In Kikongo mvita/vita means war.

[@bobmbeki2650]

he did

[@lutufyodixon9997]

Swahili coast and Kongo coast had socio economic interactions for years. Doing trades and interactions. Similarities are profound between these languages

[@Max-tu2mg]

y’all they built some buildings, like the ones in kilwa kisiwani entirely out of coral and i think that is incredible.

[@aaronthompson4085]

Very good home team I see you have discovered the Israelites scattered through out the four corners of the earth nice work

[@cecilepovich3861]

Very high quality educational series.

[@africanhistory1252]

Another Amazing video. We should definitely collaborate, HomeTeam History and African History. I think we could make something great. 👍🏾

[@estherodanga4238]

Currently 24 African countries have signed a pact to adopt Kiswahili as National Language. Rwanda has dropped French for Kiswahili. Kenya has both English and Kiswahili.South Africans have this year,2019 introduced Kiswahili into their school curriculum.Kiswahili is spoken by about 135Million people and counting. Hail King of African Languages.

[@nanaaraj]

I’m Ghanaian Ashanti but now I understand why some East Africans speak Swahili and they understand each other.

[@homehere9817]

Say bruh, I would like to know the soft music playing in the background. Sounds really nice for relaxing or meditation or sleeping.

[@menaseven9093]

The Swahili people of the East Coast of Africa for thousand of years exported gold and iron to India, Indochina, Indonesia and China. they imported silk clothes, ceramic vessels and iron weapons from those countries. The Swahili got their gold from the Monomotapa empire of Southern Africa,

[@PaddyKish254]

@Nagaraja this is the most important. Everyone ignores the booming arab slave trade based at the east african coast and perpetuated by coastal locals on the in-landers.

[@lutufyodixon9997]

@@PaddyKish254 to save islam from shame... islam has done more harm to black people than white guy ever did

[@Vhlathanosh]

@@lutufyodixon9997 naah they all did their fare share of damage but claiming Islam did the worst is hypocritical.

[@lutufyodixon9997]

@@Vhlathanosh muslims are still doing in sudan,libya and Mauritania even today for more than 1400 years.

[@Vhlathanosh]

@@lutufyodixon9997 oh yeah, that I agree with. And now they're wiping out Madagascar.

[@ms.j970]

Good video but this 'waswahili ' have their own tribes like mijikenda and giriama. Identifying with a language that everyones speaks, mostly it non-africans who have stayed that like to identify like that. I wish you had covered the actual tribes instead of an umbrella which is less significance especially to us people of african descent.

[@80Rush]

You do it.. if not satisfied.

[@ms.j970]

@@80Rush This is my opinion and definitely not directed to you..feel free to pass it,you dont have to agree.

[@theturkanabus3610]

The Swahili are their own ethnic group. The Giriama are not Swahili, they are Mijikenda, which is a separate group from the Swahili

[@artist-scopes8357]

Ms. J Swahili apart from being a language it's a culture not a tribe.

[@kimuei]

You should do good research swahili

[@YOONKA-BUULADATV]

Arab scholars including ibn khaldoun, Ibn Saeed Maghribi, ibn Batuta that visited east Africa distinguished the Somali coast from the swahili coast. The Arabs called the Somali coast as Eastern Berber (Berberul mashriq) to differentiate them from the northern Berbers in north Africa. They called the Swahili coast as Zanj. To this day the Arabs call Somali livestock that's exported to the Arabs like the goats for instance ganamul Berber (the goats of the Berbers in Arabic). And the name Berber (meaning tall dark and slim people) was given to Somalis by Greek mappers like Strabo who visited the land and witnessed the frankincense trade way before Islam but Somalis never took the name because in the Somali culture you're not animal to be branded by someone else. To this day the Italian Catholic church still buys the frankincense that's grown in East and north of Somalia. So no the Somali coast was not considered swahili however Swahili merchants as well as Arab, Persian and Indian came for trade.

[@ma7eer]

Btw the picture you put isnt of sultan said said its of his son bargash

[@MiJeyra]

Thanks for the video. To my Swahili brothers please confirm: "mshenzi" is a derogatory word that means "stupid", not slave. Mtumwa is servant. What's the Swahili name for slave?

[@abubakarrahim8482]

A slave is mtwana in Swahili

[@africanexplorermagazine]

I am from Nairobi Kenya. Very informative Video. We run a site called African Explorer Magazine. We did piece on Swahili History. If you get time pass through and get to learn more about Africa. Maybe HomeTeam can get a few ideas on stories he can do on his channel.

[@Ohquesarah]

The language is just called Swahili. Ki-Swahili is a way of saying “that of Swahili” 😚🌺

[@kibalimuriithi2188]

Another explanation is tha the term Wa-Swahili comes from the phrase "Wa siwa hili" which translates to "inhabitants of this island."

[@kimuei]

I saw another one, wa~ ziwa~ hili like a lake But yours explanation is making more sense

[@joykamiza2593]

Makes more sense than the Arab one.

[@infantjesus2363]

Congratulations for putting the records right.

[@josephmccall5308]

You missed the best legend of all about the swahili coast the legend of the smart and forgiving and strong African king. The king that brought Islam to swahili coast and yes the people their are African and can still build structures the same way great video brother.

[@bigdurk4115]

Awesome video my brother

[@hamadc9834]

You have done a nice research unfortunate it started from 16 century maybe, where can I get the history before that, there are some Swahili people in India(Gujarat,Karnataka,in Tamil Nadu) called Siddi they speak some words of Swahili they originate from East Africa , how and when this migration happened?... some confuse us with Arabs, because 10 % of our language borrowed some words from Arabic language, it was the work of British out of their ignorance to say the Swahili people have no history instead it is just Arabic culture while Swahili were there before Arabs came to East Africa....it is a complicated story to untangle believe or not...

[@abdallahahmed43]

There are also excerpts from china doing trade with kilwa before the arabs.

[@AJamal-yj6nl]

Habari Gani my rafikis!

[@asheru9254]

Mzuri Jamal, wewe umeshinda vipi?

[@luqmanmsuya6379]

Nzuri sana

[@AJamal-yj6nl]

Asheru 92 London

[@kakatagi5837]

Awesome work.

[@jamaabdilahi5397]

Let me correct you sawahili people do not live in Somalia, they never have. Mogadishu was part of no Kiswahili kingdom or Arab kingdom. Somalis have always settled in Somalia.

[@spymasterk4873]

@Quraysh القريش you are the lies , before we name our self Somali we were tribes see one of Somali kingdoms Ajuran Sultanate

[@spymasterk4873]

@Quraysh القريش i don't wanna waste my time with nonsense so give me prove for your claim.....or stop talking about other people history and forces in middle east only

[@xamarbuhodlekismayojigjiga3077]

@Quraysh القريش if u claim Arabs go to them

[@شاعرالعجمي]

Stop being spooky and listen carefully again you correct what is never said in the video

[@ibrahimgassama8362]

Till today there is bantou people in Somalia , I'm meeting them in middle east.

[@mwadiyakin-malebo4135]

Great video as always.

[@shamanmermaidblackdragon]

Great work and content

[@salimmwida6690]

Proud to be mjomvu,swahili

[@ma7eer]

Ayyyyeeee ma people! Though I am from the zanzibar side

[@ChangedNames]

vipi hali cousin, mimi omani pia

[@jessicankatha1683]

That theme music is just everything

[@wiseteacher3599]

Great video. I have a Swahili name.

[@vakasm8227]

I think it would be helpful to clarify the substantial difference in slavery that existed in Africa & Asia to that of the slave trade purprotated by the Europeans. The latter is unprecedented in human history.

[@fatimahjackson8272]

Just a few corrections: Washenzi is a terrible insult. It means someone uncivilized. The correct term is washamba (farmers). Washirazi trace their origins to Shira. Iran which is inland in Iran, not on the Gulf.

[@fruitsarelife148]

Beautiful, thank you 👍👍

[@tinajackson6636]

Swahili is so similar to the south Sudanese Arabic Dialect! But ya’ll won’t be talking bout that.

[@arushanioshaka5600]

The zanj rebellion happen in the 8th century it was a slave revolt against the abbasid caliphate

[@deepsea2141]

Mogadishu, Barawe, Marka, Kismayu, Ras-Kiamboni, Bajuni Islands in Somalia and Kenya, Lamu, Malindi, Mombasa, Tanga, Bagamoyo, Zanzibar (Unguja & Pemba), Lindi, Kilwa, Mafia, Ngazidja (Comoros), Sofala as well as part of Northern Mozambique are all Swahili cities. Somalis came from Ogaden and they invaded Mogadishu, Barawe, Marka and Kismayu during 14th century.

[@jblaze2467]

🔥🔥🔥 as always!

[@queentye7138]

Picture of our people. BEAUTIFUL

[@samray397]

I shall be glad to translate most of the ethnic words you quoted. They are Arabic words. If translated, you shall have all the explanations you need. The Swahilis, Bantus, Hausas, Tuaregs & Yorubas are all cross-bred with Arabs for over 3,000 years, well before Islam. I shall be glad to share our history with you.

[@Mr_Bawon]

When have Banytus, Yorubas or Hausas crossbred with Arabs? Some of you be saying anything.

[@cujoemblakka1041]

A language joins to people, but also facilitate trade and communication.

[@wafalme851]

Do the Mandinka people

[@BROTHAWARRIOR]

@Home Team History: do you have a bibliography available for this video?

[@kendallphillips8489]

Love the history & musik.

[@davidannderson9796]

You should add that before industry and the 19th Century trade from out of Africa- in general, including the Swahili coast- was not based on slave trade but on rich agricultural products such as spices and tropical hardwoods such as mahogany, as well as ivory, and in places gold and diamonds. Africa's native wealth was not based on slavery! The colonialists have exaggerated the importance of slavery to justify their own slavery and to convince us that Africa was backwards before they came in. Africa was rich in spices, and ivory, and tropical hardwoods like mahogany, and dried tropical fruits, and the ivory could be gathered without killing wildlife by visiting the elephant graveyards looking for dead elephants and searching the rivers for dead hippos! P.S. I apologize for the behavior of my European ancestors!

[@GustavoRodriguez-qr5po]

Id love a movie about the swahili civilization architecture religion political system Instead if another saturated Rome movie

[@anansigrimm5273]

Beautiful man beautiful

[@ocoghvst9775]

Luba-lunda subtribes #WaRua Swahili is a mixture of Kikongo, Kiluba, Arabic, Aramaic #EthiopianEgypt #LubaEmpire

[@Festusjr]

Bro you need to do one about the Gadangme people of Ghana and are found across four country's in west Africa ghana, togo, Benin and Nigeria. We are a branch of yoruba family in ile ife in nigeria. Our leader who lead us from ancient time from Israel is name is Nii Ayei kushie the Moses of the Gadangme people.

[@jeradcameroon3725]

East African history , l like it am from Uganda .

[@geraldovicofslavia1832]

Greatings to muslim Swahilis from a bosnian muslim in europe. Its sometimes awkward seeing hate on whites in the comments here though :/

[@malcomdiene7745]

Yeah, don't mind those people. You are welcome :)

[@fruitsarelife148]

No white people are racial psychopaths, get out if you are uncomfortable.

[@tambal40]

Peace 1 Why don't you get outta here

[@malcomdiene7745]

@@fruitsarelife148 Get off mate, you're the only "racial psychopat" here

[@geraldovicofslavia1832]

Hahaha we are one of the two european muslim countries together with Albania, we are 'white' but we love every muslim in the world no matter their race

[@nunyabiznis8015]

In all my learning of African culture and pre slavery and post slavery, I don't think I've ever heard anybody mention Rwanda 🇷🇼 Or Uganda 🇺🇬?? ❓❓

[@kenshinjd]

Very interesting cheers for making this. Kenyan feeling acknowledged

[@omarAhmed-re3ms]

We are not bantus, we have never been classified .

[@KudaKwashe]

Can you share any history on Fang and Kota people's?

[@estherodanga4238]

Carved Lamu doors are to die for,so are Zanzibar spices.

[@peterstrianus1790]

I will study swahili. It seems so beautiful.

[@msg653]

You should😊😊😊 that's my mother tongue

[@sephoravo]

Can you do a video about the Ba Tetela? (the Tetela people of the Congo) 🇨🇩

[@BeautyWithinKakra]

Wow 💜