Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tanzanian leader Julius Nyerere, a Swahili advocate. Keystone/Getty Images Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu ...

Mufasa. Rafiki. Simba. Most students at Princeton speak a little Swahili, thanks to the Disney classic, "The Lion King." In an effort to further expand some students' knowledge and appreciation of the ...

The Kiswahili East African Commission (KAKAMA), an inter-governmental organization that promotes and coordinates the development of Kiswahili, was given the first opportunity to organize events to ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud says students will now be taught Swahili along with Arabic, English and Somali [File: ...

This chapter provides a broad overview of the findings from research on bilingualism and second-language learning, including types of bilingualism, linguistic aspects of second-language acquisition, ...

Head of EAC and South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit (left) posts for a photo with Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud (left) following the signing of the EAC accession treaty. [Photo by ...

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