With more than 200 million speakers, Swahili, which originated in East Africa, is one of the world's 10 most widely spoken languages and, as Priya Sippy writes, there is a renewed push for it to ...

Garnier provides new insights into the Swahili novel form with all its vibrancy and capacity for experimentation. Its obsession with social issues relates to larger, all-pervasive political debates ...

Discover which Swahili words we use in English and other facts about the language. Also available in Swahili with audio.

Whereas parents prefer English or exotic names for their daughters, there are many Swahili names with powerful meanings Taraji, Malaika and Amani are a few Swahili names that are not only adorable ...

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 ...

Swahili names are ideal because each vowel is pronounced; hence, they are easy for anyone to pronounce the first time. There ...

A model presents a creation during the 17th Swahili Fashion Week in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, Dec. 6, 2024. Swahili Fashion Week, the annual fashion event in Africa, kicked off in Tanzania's port ...

Kwanzaa, which begins today, is a seven-day celebration created during the civil rights movement that focuses on cultivating ...

MUMBAI: Rajiv Desai, co-founder of Swahili Safaris, organised the NRITYA SHAKTI’s Dance Across the World: Tantalizing ...