Joy Ohon amused fans with her Swahili slip-ups on the Oga Obinna Show, confidently mixing up proverbs and giving unexpected ...

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 ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is calling for hate crime charges to be filed after one woman allegedly attacked another who was speaking Swahili ...

The place of women in Swahili society is of particular interest to Wynne-Jones. According to ethnographic research, Swahili society is traditionally matrilocal (meaning that a man, after marriage ...

So, a large fraction of Swahili ancestry presumably came from Persian men. The picture that emerges is one of Persian men mixing with African women at multiple locations along the Swahili Coast ...

in October 2015, when a woman seated nearby starting getting angry. Why? Jama, who is Somali-American and Muslim, was speaking Swahili and wearing a hijab. The woman, Jodie Burchard-Risch ...

Nyerere even made the term Swahili a referent to Tanzanian citizenship. Later, this label acquired socialist overtones in praising the common men and women of the nation. It stood in stark ...