Uganda’s National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC) has finalised its 2017 secondary school curriculum, which includes Swahili as a compulsory subject alongside English. An overhaul of the ...

Learning a new foreign language can be very beneficial and you can try starting with the following easiest African languages to learn. This is useful if you plan to travel to Africa or you are just ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tanzanian leader Julius Nyerere, a Swahili advocate. Keystone/Getty Images Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu ...

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 ...

Head of EAC and South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit (left) posts for a photo with Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud (left) following the signing of the EAC accession treaty. [Photo by ...

I was walking along, minding my business, when out of the blue, a passer-by said, “Shikamoo” — the respectful Swahili greeting used by young people when addressing elders, which literally means "I ...

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