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 ...

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 ...

In his spare time, an otherwise ordinary 16-year old boy from New York taught himself Hebrew, Arabic, Russian, Swahili, and a dozen other languages, the New York Times reported last week. And even ...

Africa’s diverse colonial past influenced the Swahili language with a rich vocabulary filled with Indo-European and Arabic loanwords, such as Portuguese, German, English and French. Today, Swahili is ...

13:10, Mon, Oct 14, 2024 Updated: 14:21, Mon, Oct 14, 2024 A man who has taught himself 29 languages is now aiming to learn Swahili. However, Wouter Corduwener believes that the official language of ...

The EAC is made up of five countries, namely Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. South Sudan’s application to join the community is still being considered by member states. Swahili is already ...

Part of the cast in one of the scenes in Kulumbisi and Kulunkalu by Alex Mukulu at the National Theatre in Kampala. Ugandan creatives have been implored to utilise the four days a week opportunity to ...

Most British people's knowledge of Swahili extends only as far as characters in Disney's The Lion King. But when one schoolboy was asked to test his knowledge of the African language, his answer was a ...

On November 23,2021, the United Nations designated July 7 as the World Kiswahili Language Day — the official day to celebrate the Swahili language. The announcement was made by the UN Educational, ...