Those who decide to spend the next few Saturdays at the library can do more than just read. You can learn another language — free of charge — and study an African culture. “Swahili is a gentle ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Kiswahili is spoken across eastern and central Africa. Mother-tongue speakers are found mainly along the coast, but Kiswahili is spoken as a second or third language by people around the world.

Part of the cast in one of the scenes in Kulumbisi and Kulunkalu by Alex Mukulu at the National Theatre in Kampala. Ugandan creatives have been implored to utilise the four days a week opportunity to ...

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 ...