Somalia is to introduce Swahili, the lingua franca of East Africa, to its national curriculum, the president has announced.

“Somalia wears many different hats,” Mohamud said at the summit in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. He explained that Somalia ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

The Minister of Education, Culture, and Higher Learning has proposed introducing Swahili as a core language in Somalia's national education curriculum, signaling a major shift away from the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...