Lali Abdalla Shelali performing using a flute during madhimisho ya siku ya Kiswahili duniani at the Lamu Youth Alliance. {Photo,Wilberforce Okwiri,Standard} The most famous phrase from Kiswahili has ...

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 ...

RadioActive’s Leija Farr grew up celebrating Kwanzaa, the year-end celebration that started in 1966 as a way for African Americans to connect with their African heritage. The Swahili language is at ...

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud says students will now be taught Swahili along with Arabic, English and Somali [File: Olivier Douliery/AFP] Somalia will begin preparations to boost teaching of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Uganda’s National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) has finalised its 2017 secondary school curriculum, which includes Swahili as a compulsory subject alongside English. An overhaul of the ...

Lali Abdalla Shelali performed using a flute during the celebration of World Kiswahili Day on July 7, 2022. [Wilberforce Okwiri, Standard] The most famous phrase from Kiswahili has to be ‘hakuna ...