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Please tell me what is unclear and I will explain. Basically, this book is a description of an imaginary world where magic works.The story is that thousand years ago, on this world, there were four great Bantu cities: BassaNgo in the west, Vungu in the Congo, Embo in the south and Great...

I probably destroyed the grammar in the title. I took two semesters of kiSwahili in college ten years ago and haven't had much practical experience. I'm writing a book that will be a setting for role-playing games. Almost all settings for these games are based on European or Asian mythology...

(I can't say this in kiSwahili). I'm writing a setting for fantasy role playing games, like Dungeons and Dragons, based on Bantu mythology. In this world, four great cities of precolonial Africa were swallowed by a Khudumodumo/Kammapa/Swallowing Beast. Later a great hero killed the beast, but...

I needs specific kiSwahili terms for certain monsters and spirits out of Bantu mythology. Often I have the word in one Bantu language, but can't find it in kiSwahili. Examples: Ogre - a large, cannibalistic races of beings. If in my story, these guys are actually physically people, should they...