How did Swahili become an East African lingua franca? It was not by accident. I n March 1960 Julius Nyerere – then leader of ...

The rise of external AI giants underscores the urgency of developing homegrown language models that reflect Africa’s ...

Headphones on her head, fingers on the controls, eyes fixed on the mixing software, Kwem Kimtai strung together Afro house ...

By God’s grace, the church is growing throughout East Africa where Swahili is widely spoken, in countries like Kenya, ...

In the fenceless safari zones of southern Kenya, the Maasai have lived for centuries in symbiosis with wildlife — and smaller, more intimate camps can help give guests a window into their remarkable ...

The creation of new words is making Swahili richer but more difficult. Does this explain why Swahili is losing appeal in Kenya? Swahili, it seems, is no longer the language of ordinary people.

The Rwandan Patriotic Army (RPA), raised among Uganda’s Swahili-speaking soldiers, carried the language into Kigali during the 1994 Genocide. For a fractured country pulling in different linguistic ...

My first personal encounter with Pope Francis was in 2015, before his visit to Kenya. We met at a gathering for migrants and refugees. I had the immense grace of shaking his hand. He smiled and gently ...

The Kenyan government does not seem interested in funding the project. In 2016, Duncan tried to obtain an ISO designation – a standardised code that formally recognises languages and dialects globally ...

When 25-year-old Kenyan teacher Stella stumbled on an X post about a new finance bill proposing taxes on basics from bread to diapers, she brushed it off as fake news.“I just ...