Tanzania / Zanzibar: A well-to-do young Swahili woman posing in the Stonetown studio of A.C. Gomes & Sons, Zanzibar, c. 1900

The Swahili people are a Bantu ethnic group and culture found on the coast of East Africa. The Swahili people mainly reside on the Swahili Coast, in an area encompassing Zanzibar archipelago, coastal Kenya, the Tanzanian coast and northern Mozambique. The name Swahili is derived from the Arabic word Sawahil, meaning 'coastal', and they speak the Swahili language.

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A. C. Gomes (PD)

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