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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

DODOMA: THE Deputy Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Culture, Arts, and Sports, Methusela Ntonda, said the global recognition of Kiswahili Language is among the significant ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...