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 ...

The world and most African countries marked Thursday as the first World Kiswahili Language Day. Swahili is considered one of the top 10 most spoken languages in the world. And in Africa, it is the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

With more than 200 million speakers, Swahili, which originated in East Africa, is one of the world's 10 most widely spoken languages and, as Priya Sippy writes, there is a renewed push for it to ...

The learning and teaching of Swahili has been made compulsory in Uganda’s secondary schools, a move that the East African country believes will promote regional integration within the East Africa ...

Sara Manos said her favorite Swahili phrase means, simply, "to sleep deeply." "Lala fo fo fo," Manos scrawled in Swahili on a piece of paper late last month. The University of Iowa African Studies ...

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 ...