UPDATE: In a written statement, Swahili Village owner Kevin Onyona said that he had voluntarily agreed to settle, and that the settlement was not an admission of wrongdoing. “We insist that our ...

With more than 200 million speakers, Swahili, which originated in East Africa, is one of the world's 10 most widely spoken languages and, as Priya Sippy writes, there is a renewed push for it to ...

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 ...

Recently I visited Nairobi Kenya and went to various local street markets to practice my Swahili and other East African ...

Pepper talks to a group of museum visitors on the lower level of the National Museum of African Art. Michelle Edwards / National Museum of African Art How do you get a robot to speak Swahili? That’s ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Officials in prison systems across the United States have banned certain books as a way to prevent the flow of material that they say might incite violence. In Michigan, the ban has extended to ...

A genetic analysis of dozens of ancient skeletons from East Africa helps pin down the origins of coastal Swahili society. By Elie Dolgin A long history of mercantile trade along the eastern shores of ...

Restaurateur Kevin Onyona nicknamed his downtown Kenyan restaurant “The Consulate.” He envisioned Swahili Village as a cultural and culinary hub for African diplomats and expats, the nearby World Bank ...