This idyllic Tanzanian island is the cradle of African Swahili culture—here's why

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

Tanzania's Zanzibar is the cradle of African Swahili culture—here's why

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

Swahili's bid to become a language for all of Africa

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 ...
NPR

What's the origin of the long-ago Swahili civilization? Genes offer a revealing answer

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 ...
Nature

Medieval Swahili people had both African and Asian ancestry

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 ...
KQED

The Bay Area’s First Tanzanian Restaurant Takes Root in West Oakland

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 ...
NPR

Michigan prisons ban Spanish and Swahili dictionaries to prevent inmate disruptions

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 ...