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 ...
Chelsie Frank, a global studies and environmental and sustainable environment senior, sat behind a table in the Sabathani Community Center in Minneapolis wearing a traditional African dress and ...
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 ...
POTTSVILLE – The Encyclopedia Brittanica estimates that Swahili, a Bantu language originating in East Africa, is spoken by tens of millions of people worldwide. In the city of Pottsville, only one ...
Swahili is the third most-spoken language in Lexington, behind English and Spanish, and Lexington’s Swahili-speaking community gathered Saturday to celebrate their language and the cultures it ...
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 ...
For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. The historical lands of the Swahili are on East Africa’s Indian Ocean littoral ...