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

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

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 ...

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 ...

Even to Luis Von Ahn, there are a few things about Duolingo, the mobile-phone based language learning app that he co-developed five years ago, that don’t make a lot of obvious sense. Like the fact ...

The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens, located in Palm Desert, Calif., shared with PEOPLE that it welcomed the addition on May 3, ...

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 ...

UPDATE: In a written statement, Swahili Village owner Kevin Onyona said that he had voluntarily agreed to settle, and that the settlement was not an admission of wrongdoing. “We insist that our ...

Onyona is confident that if his first restaurant could thrive after an original stint in College Park, Maryland, and a relocation to a Beltsville strip mall, then this one can succeed for lunch and ...

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 ...

Tierney Plumb is an editor of Eater’s Northeast region, covering D.C., Boston, Philly, and New York. Swahili Village, the upscale East African restaurant situated along D.C.’s power-dining M Street NW ...