The French, English, Portuguese and Spanish colonisers violently imposed their languages on the African population; languages which are still used in the vast majority of institutions on the continent ...
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 ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Prince A. Williams ’25, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a History concentrator in Adams House. Before my sophomore year, I was terrified of deciding what foreign language to take. The idea of learning ...
Between April 20 to May 22, 2020, Global Voices sub-Saharan Africa in conjunction with Rising Voices hosted a Twitter conversation as part of the project, “The identity matrix: Platform regulation of ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tanzanian leader Julius Nyerere, a Swahili advocate. Keystone/Getty Images Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu ...
For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. The historical lands of the Swahili are on East Africa’s Indian Ocean littoral ...