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 ...

Interest in studying Swahili – the lingua franca of much of East Africa – is booming in Egypt.

BYU offers many interesting classes, including everything from Campfire Leadership to Pre-legal Latin. Introduction to Swahili, however, proves to be one of the most unusual. 'When I tell people I''m ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tanzanian leader Julius Nyerere, a Swahili advocate. Keystone/Getty Images Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu ...

The Kiswahili East African Commission (KAKAMA), an inter-governmental organization that promotes and coordinates the development of Kiswahili, was given the first opportunity to organize events to ...

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 ...

The EAC is made up of five countries, namely Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. South Sudan’s application to join the community is still being considered by member states. Swahili is already ...

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 ...