Editor’s note: This personal essay was written following a Twitter campaign organized by Global Voices sub-Saharan Africa and Rising Voices where each week, a different language activist shared their ...

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Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu tongue, Swahili has evolved into Africa’s most internationally recognised language. It is peer to the few languages of the world that boast over ...

On November 23,2021, the United Nations designated July 7 as the World Kiswahili Language Day — the official day to celebrate the Swahili language. The announcement was made by the UN Educational, ...

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