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this is the ruler of your so called swahili a word in arabic

KidStranglehold: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swahili_culture
I actually mean city-states that were controlled by Swahili culture.

Also you still do NOT get what I am saying. I am not denying that East Africans were enslaved. But that the lands controlled by Swahili people was NOT ENSLAVED. Trading slaves does not=Swahili city-states being enslaved...Get what I am saying?

And WTF are you talking about? I believe East Africa was inhabited by Bantu people by 1000BC...Long before Arabs when the Bantu expansion happened. Again Arabs just settled among the coast to do TRADE.

they were enslaving each other, why do you think their entire language is the root of it is arabic....omg......i wish there was a kenyan here man. The arabs settled in kenya before the bantus.....and you know very well the bantus were exported to somalia and the middle east as slaves.......those city states were arab run, like zanzibar......the protugesse and arabs and turks were in the area.....even the bantus were selling each other if they were not muslim



arabs settled on the coast to trade them...lol....come on son......where ever there we blacks they were primitive and sold as slaves.......east west where ever...

KidStranglehold: OMG you can't be this id*tic...No one here is blind but YOU.

1. That does NOT state the Swahili states were controlled or enslaved by Arabs or Somalis.
2. It does not state the area was controlled by Arabs.
3. You're an idiot because Luo people are BLACK themselves.

Again by request....Where is proof that Swahili states were enslaved/dominated by Arabs. Slaves being TRADED by Swahili states does not=Swahiki state itself being enslaved or controlled.

there was no swahili state, it was a language, made by the arabs there, with a mix of bantu, the luo were muslism thats why they were not slaves......man i wish a kenyan was here to tell you himself....cause they always cry over how they enslaved each other cause of religion.

90 percent of the people there were slaves....the arabs were on the coast. the arabs were in kenya before the bantu...the bantus came as slaves....

i wish an ugly kenyan was here to proof to you how arabs and somalis dominated them


man if it was for the somalis and turks......kenyans would be slaves to portugese rather than arabs....lol

KidStranglehold: In the centuries preceding colonisation, the Swahili coast of Kenya was part of the east African region which traded with the Arab world and India especially for ivory and slaves (the Ameru tribe is said to have originated from slaves escaping from Arab lands sometime around the year 1700). Initially these traders came mainly from Arab states, but later many came from Zanzibar (such as Tippu Tip).[32] Close to 90% of the population on the Kenya coast was enslaved.[33] Swahili, a Bantu language with Arabic, Persian, and other Middle Eastern and South Asian loanwords, later developed as a lingua franca [b]for trade between the different peoples
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^^^Again read your own sources you nitwit!

nigggga read your shid

did you know that arabs controlled kenya always....man read your history.....they traded slaves from kenya to arabia

KidStranglehold: 1. I edited my post so read it again
2. How about you read yor own f**king sources you f**king nitwit! Your source states that they TRADED slaves! That is different from the Swahili states ITSELF being enslaved or controlled. Are you this retarded? Read what you post.

omg......dude they were slaves.....90 percent of the country was slaves.....the entire region was arab controlled.....are you so blind.

even the american media knows it...cause they said obamas muslim father traded bantu slaves who were not muslim

KidStranglehold: Why are you keep doing my request. Where is your proof that the Swahili states were enslaved or controlled by Arabs or Somalis.

r u fukkkkin blind....their entire nation was made of slaves.....jeussus christ.....


90 percent of them were slaves, come on son....even they know it

KidStranglehold: @somalia5

That the Africans themselves were able to keep monopolies concerning trade with the rest of Africa, plus the long extensive and long distance connections in Africa itself Africans were keen in keeping track of their business interests and also sophisticated enough ways to carry on the trade, this might give some reason to believe that the old Ghana empire would have some sort of communication with the opposite Coast, especially through Islam since even under pagan rule their was a strong Islamic presence in Ghana. Even if United by Islam these "Sudanese" could also gain an upper hand in the Muslim world. The below suggests the Zanj were sophisticated to carry out something like this. There is evidence that even in the 19th century the Zanj were competitive in the steel market and in earlier times they had a great advantage in the world steel market, and the Zanj could possibly have had a great but secret part of the world spice trade

"Portuguese Conceptual Categories and the “Other” Encounter on the Swahili Coast" by JEREMY PRESTHOLDT

^^^^That literally debunks everything you've been saying. Don't be jelly because Kenyans have been more successful than Somalis whether it be from the past or present.

dude wallahi your an idioooot and i wish their was a kenyan here who gets called adoon by somalis to answer ur questions


kenya is a bunch of ethnicities who have been warring....that entire region was controlled by Turks, arabs and somalis......if you were not muslim you were enslaved


even the kenyans admit it... laughing at the bolded, this is the kenyas history a nation of slaves.....this is their history....my broda.




In the centuries preceding colonisation, the Swahili coast of Kenya was part of the east African region which traded with the Arab world and India especially for ivory and slaves (the Ameru tribe is said to have originated from slaves escaping from Arab lands sometime around the year 1700). Initially these traders came mainly from Arab states, but later many came from Zanzibar (such as Tippu Tip).[32] Close to 90% of the population on the Kenya coast was enslaved.[33] Swahili, a Bantu language with Arabic, Persian, and other Middle Eastern and South Asian loanwords, later developed as a lingua franca for trade between the different peoples.[25]

COME ON SON. YOUR SWAHILI ARE THOSE WHO WERE RAPPPED BY ARABS, AND THEIR LANGAUGE IS MIXED OF ARABIC.