The origins of East Africa’s Swahili culture can be traced to the shores of Zanzibar, where centuries of spice trade and ...

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 ...

Justice Bahati Mwamuye has called out a lawyer who struggled to speak in Kiswahili during a court proceeding that was held on ...

Best known for one of the world’s most incredible wildlife spectacles — the Great Migration across the Serengeti — this East ...

THE United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has approved Kiswahili language as one of the official languages to be used in the organization's General Conferences.This ...

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 ...

See Senior Director of TV Programming Meredith Speight’s recommendations from this month’s KQED 9, PLUS and Passport schedules. Videos from KQED Live Watch recordings of recent KQED Live events. Donor ...

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 ...