July 7 has so much significance for Swahili and Swahili speakers. Besides the Saba Saba civil disobedience proposed by the opposition, the name itself is a Swahili phrase to mean the seventh day of ...

Genetic analyses back up what Swahili oral tradition has long held about ancestry of people from eastern Africa — that their ancestors are from... Chapurukha Kusimba was a young boy in Kenya in the ...

WASHINGTON — It’s a huge word, “Africa.” Only six characters long, but with inflections, extensions and complications that go on and on. Even people who say it often can forget that reality. The ...

The Black Studies Department hosted the Swahili Language & Culture Program on Tuesday in MU Student Center. Upon arrival, the students were encouraged to put on Swahili clothes brought by the ...

The Swahili-speaking community in Lexington is growing, sharing and celebrating its culture with Central Kentucky. On Saturday, amid the pageantry of the city’s third-annual Swahili Day festival, ...

A new ancient DNA study help confirm, but also "contradict and complicate" the historical narrative that Swahilis paired up with Persians 1,000 years ago in East Africa. When you purchase through ...

Lamu is a historic Swahili port town on an island off the northern coast of Kenya. Each year it hosts the famous Lamu Maulidi Festival, a sacred Muslim celebration, planned this year for 17-18 ...