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 ...

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 ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). It’s hard to imagine what the Africans of Zanzibar made of the Persians when they arrived in the 10th century, sailing in on dhow boats ...

MUSCAT (Reuters) - The coastal Arab nation of Oman is the unlikely center of a thriving African music scene with roots stretching back centuries and across the seas to Zanzibar. The Omani empire in ...

English is the main language of instruction at senior schools in Somalia Somalia is to introduce Swahili, the lingua franca of East Africa, to its national curriculum, the president has announced.

Swahili — Kiswahili if you’re in the mood to be precise — is East Africa’s storied coastal brew, with Bantu roots, Arabic flair, and a Persian whisper. Its historical spread is often chalked up to ...

March 29 (Reuters) - 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 ...

Analyses of ancient DNA from 80 individuals buried in medieval Swahili stone towns along the East African coast revealed that these individuals had both African and Asian ancestry. The findings ...

MUSCAT, Oct 5 (Reuters) - The coastal Arab nation of Oman is the unlikely centre of a thriving African music scene with roots stretching back centuries and across the seas to Zanzibar. The Omani ...

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