"Something wasn't quite right." Sponsor Message Kusimba grew up in western Kenya and is not Swahili, but he became fascinated by the thousand-year-old culture of the Swahili people, who live along ...

The Pakistan High Commission in Kigali opened its doors on June 13 for a day of cultural fusion, hosting the Pakistan Cultural and Sports Festival that blended Asian traditions with African ...

July 7 has so much significance for Swahili and Swahili speakers. Besides the Saba Saba civil disobedience proposed by the opposition, the name itself is a Swahili phrase to mean the seventh day ...

This suggests a multiracial identity shaped early Swahili culture and brings a new understanding of the past to the people who are Swahili today. In regards to understanding exactly how Swahili cu ...

“Now, with this DNA study, we see there was some truth to it.” Members of the medieval and early modern Swahili culture lived in towns and villages along the coast of East Africa, shared the ...

"We are proud that the Swahili culture has been embraced by so many other cultures and has influenced even the explorers who passed by our coast." Skanda is the son of Mzee Abdalla Ali Skanda ...

Step into the rich Swahili culture through historic Fort Jesus, bustling Old Town markets, and the aromatic flavors of traditional cuisine. Journey inland to the peaceful West Pocot Hill ...

The Swahili Coast and its culture in the medieval period (roughly the tenth to fifteenth centuries) is relatively little studied, compared with other cultures of its size and influence ...

Archaeologists, anthropologists, and linguists have been locked in a century-long debate about how much people from outside Africa contributed to Swahili culture and ancestry. Swahili communities ...

The Black Studies Department hosted the Swahili Language & Culture Program on Tuesday in MU Student Center. Upon arrival, the students were encouraged to put on Swahili clothes brought by the ...

Swahili culture bloomed in the medieval period. The Swahili people embraced a unique mix of religion – Islam – and language – Kiswahili (an African Bantu language that uses Arabic loanwords) – which ...