Swahili, also known as Kiswahili, is widely spoken throughout East Africa and serves as a lingua franca in several countries including Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Mozambique, and the ...

Africa is a continent rich with language diversity, with around 2,000 languages thought to be in use. All are considered official languages of the African Union. Nigeria alone has over 500 living ...

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 ...

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