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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Kiswahili East African Commission (KAKAMA), an inter-governmental organization that promotes and coordinates the development of Kiswahili, was given the first opportunity to organize events to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Abdulaziz, M. H., & Osinde, K. (1997). Sheng and Engsh: Development of mixed codes among the urban youth in Kenya. Nairobi: Androutsopoulos & Scholz. Appel, R ...