Yesterday marked the first World Kiswahili Language Day, celebrated in several locations globally. This comes only two days after Uganda officially adopted Kiswahili as a national language. The World ...

Renowned author and media personality Ken Walibora. [Joseph Muchiri, Standard] Today is World Kiswahili Language Day. The fete is being celebrated globally for the first time since UNESCO designated ...

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 ...

In November 2021 during its 41st Session in Paris, UNESCO Member States declared July 7th World Kiswahili Language Day. Kiswahili — also known as Swahili — is a Bantu language native to Eastern and ...

The world and most African countries marked Thursday as the first World Kiswahili Language Day. Swahili is considered one of the top 10 most spoken languages in the world. And in Africa, it is the ...

BLANTYRE, MALAWI - Malawi President Lazarus Chakwera has ordered the country’s education authorities to immediately start introducing the Swahili language into the country's school curriculum for easy ...

South Africa has announced that Kiswahili will be introduced as an optional language in schools by 2020. The move was welcomed by many who want to see the language, known in English simply as Swahili, ...

Kiswahili, for the first time, will be a compulsory subject in Ugandan primary and secondary schools following a recent cabinet decision, but it is far from becoming a widely spoken and loved language ...

Swahili is the national language of Tanzania, which is home to 59.7 million people. There are over a hundred languages spoken in Tanzania, but Swahili is spoken by 90% of the nation and is what unites ...

A genetic analysis of dozens of ancient skeletons from East Africa helps pin down the origins of coastal Swahili society. By Elie Dolgin A long history of mercantile trade along the eastern shores of ...