Part one of term paper
The name derives from an Arabic word , the plural of sahel, which means coast. The are the descendants of the Arabs who came to the East African coast and intermarried with the Local Bantu-speakers. Arab traders sailed down to the coast on the north-east monsoon winds, between November and April, and sailed back up to south-west on the re ...

Part two of term paper
... as the first millennium A.D. and conceivably could have settled further north as well). Initially Arab immigration was scarce, settlement was sparse and it was limited to the islands. But it did occur, marriage with the women of the coast took place and the first seeds for the eventual emergence of a Swahili culture were sown. The shirazi are also descendants of interracial marriages but in this case it was the Persians who came to the coast. Shirazi is derived from the Persian word Shiraz, the ...