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A different turn of the magic wheel and it'd be a Dawn Powell novel having sold 50 million copies in 385 languages including Swahili, instead of The Old Man and the Sea ?
Swahili words were chosen because the language, a hybrid of Arabic and Bantu tongues, is tied to no particular African tribe.
Karenga took the holiday's name from the Swahili phrase matunda yakwanza , meaning "first fruit."
Swahili is the lingua franca of East Africa, but it has a lot in common with Fanagalo, and the two include many similar words.
One language is Swahili--as approved by the East African Swahili Committee in 1957; the other Fanagalo-- The Lingua Franca of Southern Africa, printed only twenty years ago but using language very alien to the urban Brit.