Swahili
In 1902, Tippu Tip dictated his autobiography in Swahili, but it was written down in Arabic. In 1962, Julius Nyerere translated Shakespeare's Julius Caesar into Swahili, although it was not his mother tongue.
Ray Gosling learns that Swahili is the first language of scarcely more than a million people in coastal Mombasa, Lamu and Zanzibar - yet it has spread throughout the African hinterland.
An adventure into 'African' with John Kelly at
York University, Nasur Malik and Mohammed Adam. Producer JENNY LO