sunil@ut-ngp.UTEXAS (Sunil Trivedi) (06/23/85)
While almost all of the slaves who were brought to the
'New World' came from West Africa, why is Swahili given
such a high stature by Blacks in the U.S. when Swahili
is from East Africa? Why not a West African language,
like Yoruba? Since the Europeans stripped the African
slave of his own language and culture (or at least the
Europeans thought they did), did the 'white man' have any-
thing to do with Swahili becoming the 'native language'
to the Blacks in the U.S.? Even the Arabs, who also had an
extremely active African slave trade, did many of the same
things that the Europeans did to the African slaves. While
the Euopean 'gave' the Bible, the Arab 'gave' the Koran [Quran].
Why has Swahili been chosen since it is too a language of
the slavemasters?
Sunil Trivedi
sunil@ut-ngp.ARPA
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