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=**__LANGUAGES__**=

The name Swahili comes from the Arabic word //Sawahil//, which means “coastal dwellers”.

The official languages that the Swahili speak is Swahili, Portuguese, English, and Somali, they usually speak English in Tanzania and Kenya, and Portuguese in Mozambique, and Somali in Somalia.

=**__NATURAL RESOURCES__**=

In Somalia the natural resources found there are uranium, iron ore, tin, gypsum, bauxite, copper, salt, natural gas, and oil. In Mozambique the natural resources found are coal, titanium, natural gas, hydropower, tantalum, and graphite. In Kenya natural resources found there are, limestone, soda ash, salt, gemstones, fluorspar, zinc, diatomite, gypsum, wildlife, and hydropower. In Tanzania a few natural resources that is found there are hydropower, tin, phosphates, iron ore, coal, diamonds, gemstones, gold, natural gas, and nickel. In Uganda natural resources found there are copper, cobalt, hydropower, limestone, salt, and arable land.

Some occupations that the Swahili people do are craft, artwork, wood carving, shipbuilding, and fish.

=**__HISTORY__**=

Around 500 A.D. African and Arabians went to east Africa for trade with the Swahili, the Swahili never formed any united ethnic group but are separated and common in economy (especially trading)

In Kenya, Paleontologists have discovered loads of fossils or prehistoric animals that once roamed the Earth, in one of the rare dinosaur sites in Africa, 200 Cretaceous dinosaur/theropod and massive crocodile fossils have been found in Kenya! Dating from about 200 million years ago! Wow, and I thought 100 years was a lot.



People from the northern side of Africa moved into the area which is now known as Kenya, beginning around 2000 BC. Arab traders began appearing Kenya around the 1st century A.D. Arab and Persian settlements appeared along the coast by the 8th century! More than 40 ethnic groups are found in Kenya. Its largest group Kikuyu came to Kenya at the beginning of the 18th century.

Kenya then became protected over the British in 1890 and a Crown Colony in 1920, when Kenya went by the name British East Africa. And in 1952 the Mau Mau movement, made up of Kikuyu militants (soldiers) fought against the government, the war lasted until 1956. One December 12, 1963, Kenya finally achieved full independence.Yah! Jomo Kenyatta a nationalist leader who was jailed by the British was then, made Kenya’s first president.

The image on the left is an image of Kenya' first president of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta.

In Tanzania Arab traders began to colonize around 700. Portuguese explorers reached the coastal regions in 1500 and controlled Tanzania until the 17th century when the Sultan of Oman took control, which is now known as the Burundi, Rwanda, and Tanganyika became the colony of German East Africa in 1885. Zanzibar was known to have connections with southern Arabia, then the Portuguese made it one of their own tributaries (which Zanzibar had to tribute or pay the Portuguese) in 1503 and later established a trading post there, but they were chased away in 1698 by Arabs from Oman. Zanzibar declared independence Of Oman in 1861, and later in 1890 it was later controlled by the British, Tanganyika became independent on December 1961, Zanzibar on December 10, 1963, the two nations merged together and was then known as the United Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, then the name was later changed to Tanzania.(Tanganyika was fused with Zanzibar and thus came the name Tanzania).

=**__TRANSPORTATION__**=

The type of transportation Kenya uses now are airplanes, trains, cars, boats, ships, marines. There are about 225 airports which are now located in Kenya, there are railway that stretch to about 2,778 km, and the total km of roadways that were added up together was about 63,265 km. And Lake Victoria is located in Kenya.There are also minibuses that travels through villages until Mombasa Island.

The type of transportation Tanzania uses now, like Kenya, airplanes, trains, boats, and ships. There are about 124 airpports located in Tanzania, about 3,690 km of railways, and 78,891 km of roadways(altogether).

The image on the left is an image of a bus use in the area.

The image on the right, is a boat which the Swahili people use, they can use it for fishing, transportation, and for divers interested in scuba diving or professional divers that come to. Once a long time ago, the Swahili were urban dwellering traders, but since the trade stopped, farming and fishing are quite popular for jobs, females would use nets to fish, while men would use boats and go out to sea to search for fish.