Interest in studying Swahili – the lingua franca of much of East Africa – is booming in Egypt.

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 ...

It is the first Sunday of the Advent season, and inside St. Norbert Catholic Church in Florissant are about 50 African families spaced out across the church pews tapping their feet to the African drum ...

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud says students will now be taught Swahili along with Arabic, English and Somali [File: Olivier Douliery/AFP] Somalia will begin preparations to boost teaching of ...

Somalia will begin preparations to boost teaching of the Swahili language in schools and universities, its president said. President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud made the announcement on Tuesday, October 7, ...

Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu tongue, Swahili has evolved into Africa’s most internationally-recognised language. It is peer to the few languages of the world that boast over ...