Being one of the most widely spoken languages in East Africa, Swahili opens doors to understanding the rich cultures of the ...

Basic Swahili Phrases for Travelers. If your Swahili needs are more simple, browse the list below to find a few top phrases to practice before you leave on vacation.

Makerere University has launched a basic curriculum for the teaching of Swahili Language to beginners. The programme will be conducted by Makerere University’s Julius Nyerere Leadership Center ...

A study of centuries-old DNA has deciphered the complex ancestry of coastal East Africa's Swahili people, revealing how a cosmopolitan and prosperous medieval civilization arose thanks in large ...

Swahili has been a recorded written language for centuries and traces its roots back over 1,200 years, but colonial-era European academics became interested in the language because they ...

Swahili civilization has differing origin stories. Genes offer new clues : Goats and Soda Genetic analyses back up what Swahili oral tradition has long held about ancestry of people from eastern ...