Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu tongue, Swahili has evolved into Africa’s most internationally recognised language. It is peer to the few languages of the world that boast over ...

Early this week, the United Nations General Assembly member states proclaimed July 7 as the World Kiswahili Language Day. This follows as resolution tabled by Kenya and Tanzania on behalf of the ...

Editor’s note: This personal essay was written following a Twitter campaign organized by Global Voices sub-Saharan Africa and Rising Voices where each week, a different language activist shared their ...

Mufasa. Rafiki. Simba. Most students at Princeton speak a little Swahili, thanks to the Disney classic, "The Lion King." In an effort to further expand some students' knowledge and appreciation of the ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. The historical lands of the Swahili are on East Africa’s Indian Ocean littoral ...

In the 1940s, a student from Kenya named James Gekonyo applied to the Chemistry Department of Makerere University in Uganda. When his admissions interviewers asked him to explain the difference ...

In the 1940s, a student from Kenya named James Gekonyo applied to the Chemistry Department of Makerere University in Uganda. When his admissions interviewers asked him to explain the difference ...

Pepper talks to a group of museum visitors on the lower level of the National Museum of African Art. Michelle Edwards / National Museum of African Art How do you get a robot to speak Swahili? That’s ...

A recent DePauw graduate who soon will be pursuing a master’s degree in geoscience is adding the Swahili language to his repertoire, thanks to a Critical Language Scholarship awarded him by the U.S.

Swahili is the third most-spoken language in Lexington, behind English and Spanish, and Lexington’s Swahili-speaking community gathered Saturday to celebrate their language and the cultures it ...