Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Zanzibar beach comes alive at sunset as coastal villagers descend onto it for a football match. Photograph by Adrienne Pitts This ...

July 7 has so much significance for Swahili and Swahili speakers. Besides the Saba Saba civil disobedience proposed by the opposition, the name itself is a Swahili phrase to mean the seventh day of ...

The Black Studies Department hosted the Swahili Language & Culture Program on Tuesday in MU Student Center. Upon arrival, the students were encouraged to put on Swahili clothes brought by the ...

Genetic analyses back up what Swahili oral tradition has long held about ancestry of people from eastern Africa — that their ancestors are from... Chapurukha Kusimba was a young boy in Kenya in the ...

WASHINGTON — It’s a huge word, “Africa.” Only six characters long, but with inflections, extensions and complications that go on and on. Even people who say it often can forget that reality. The ...

The Swahili-speaking community in Lexington is growing, sharing and celebrating its culture with Central Kentucky. On Saturday, amid the pageantry of the city’s third-annual Swahili Day festival, ...

ORANGEBURG, S.C. — Swahili is one of the world's most popular languages and only a fraction of the U.S. population knows how to speak it. New Swahili classes at South Carolina State University are ...

Chapurukha Kusimba was a young boy in Kenya in the 1960s just as many African nations were attaining independence from western European countries. The power and success of African nationalists ...