Geider Thomas The steady growth of research, teaching and publishing over the last twenty years on all continents has made Swahilistics a well established and much differentiated sub-discipline within African studies. Its object is the study of the language, literature, society, culture and history of the Swahili-speaking populations in East Africa and the diaspora and the usage of the language in transnational institutions and the internet. General and Comparative Linguistics and Literature 490 periodical academic journal 2004 1 2005 1860-7462 urn:nbn:de:0009-10-435 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0009-10-435 geider2005