It takes the average reader 4 hours and 18 minutes to read The World of the Swahili by John Middleton
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
The Swahili of East Africa have a long and distinctive history as a literate, Muslim, urban, and mercantile society. In this book a leading Africanist presents the first full-length anthropological account of the Swahili and offers an original analysis of their little-understood and unusual culture. Swahili towns, some urban with elegant stone buildings and others more rural with palm-leaf-matting houses, are spread along the thousand-mile East African coast. Because each local community is culturally different from its neighbors, previous historians and anthropologists have viewed the...
The World of the Swahili by John Middleton is 254 pages long, and a total of 64,516 words.
This makes it 86% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 52 minutes to read The World of the Swahili aloud.
The World of the Swahili is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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