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Thanks to the film Lion King, a lot of people in the world who don’t speak Kiswahili know what it means. It has been the go-to African language in films, unofficially recognised as the language ...
East meets West in this adorable clip of Priscilla Ojo and Juma Jux saying 'I love you' in Swahili and Yoruba.
A Maasai girl takes her fellow pupils through a Swahili language lesson in Samburu. [Getty Images] Today is World Kiswahili Language Day. The fete is being celebrated globally for the first time ...
Discover which Swahili words we use in English and other facts about the language. Also available in Swahili with audio.
Samsung Adds Kiswahili and Amharic Languages Kiswahili and Amharic are widely spoken in East Africa, with Kiswahili serving as a lingua franca for over 100 million people.
On March 26, I observed discussions in two WhatsApp groups of the Kiswahili language. The early morning discussion was in a WhatsApp group with members from different parts of the world.
Delegates from across The East African Community have implored the government in Uganda to prioritize promoting the Kiswahili language as it could go a long way in unifying citizens across ...
A #Dayton church is planning to convert a downtown office building into a place of worship, serving speakers of Swahili or ...