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

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

One of the 10 most widely spoken languages in the world is Swahili, with over 200 million speakers, according to UNESCO. Moreover, as Swahili to English translator Richard Prins writes, “the Swahili ...

On a Sunday afternoon in the historic sanctuary of Government Street Methodist Church in downtown Mobile, a group of women are singing in Swahili. In colorful dashikis and headscarves, the “Wake Up ...

Medadi Ssentanda is affiliated with Makerere University and Stellenbosch University. Judith Nakayiza does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — A new list from Stacker found that residents in the Greater Syracuse area speak a variety of languages in their homes. More than 91% of people in the Syracuse-Auburn area speak only ...

"Jambo" may mean hello in Swahili, but a slave brought to the United States would not have recognized that greeting. There may not have been a single Swahili-speaking African brought to these shores ...

Ugandan presidential candidate Mubarak Munyagwa has proposed banning Swahili, the country’s official language, in favour of French, saying French offers broader regional coverage.