An Island Steepped in Swahili History
2008-02-25 04:20:00 The Kenyan island of Lamu is a rare living heritage of Swahili culture and architecture, a melting pot of influences which stretches along the East African coast from Somalia to Mozambique. Founded around 1350 by Arabic traders, Lamu Old Town was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 2001. Although tourists have been coming to the area for decades, an aconomic downturn pushed the island to start an annual cultural festival to promote and preserve its centuries old traditions.Source: AFP
Wangaloka from Mbola
2007-11-18 16:00:00 Photo:Flickr/milleniumpromise Yesterday, Lia and I emerged from the bush of Africa. A.k.a Mbola, Tanzania. Our stay lasted 5 nights 6 days. With no one speaking English, we basically had to sink or swim in the language pool, and ended up floating. We can now complete the call-and-response greeting series in Swahili and the tribal language. The ...
Swahili music
2007-10-09 14:34:00 It is from the eastern coast of Africa where the Swahili civilization sprang up and grew in to what is today Kenya’s offering of a vast variety and diversity of popular music forms. Popular forms of music besides Swahili include Benga, hip hop, reggae, soul, soukous, rock and roll, funk and Europop. The guitar is considered to be the soul of musical instruments across all genres in continental African music; however they also use bass and percussions.With the emergence of radio and television broadcasters Swahili music artists’ performances began to be aired live. The lyrics of various music artists would vary between Swahili and Lingala, but other tribal languages were not given much importance and hence there was no scope for development. Many night clubs in Nairobi started playing rumba music which was very trendy and was a the rage at that time. By the end of 1977, with the East African community splitting, the continuous flow of Tanzanian Swahili performers entering Kenya t...
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Uganda: Kiswahili now a compulsory subject in school
2007-09-24 20:06:00 Article from All Africa.com Can Uganda Ably Make Kiswahili Popular? New Vision (Kampala) 28 August 2007 Posted to the web 29 August 2007 By Irene Nabusoba Kampala THE Government recently endorsed Kiswahili as the national language and a compulsory subject from Primary Four to secondary level, the latter starting with this year’s inaugural Universal Secondary School batch. However, there are ...
News & Current Events :: Swahili Bible Translation Underway
2007-08-01 07:07:00 Author: Eric Subject: Swahili Bible Translation UnderwayPosted: Wed Aug 01, 2007 1:07 am (GMT -4) Swahili Bible Translation Underway International (MNN) -- "We expect to have the entire Bible in print within five years." That's World Bible Translation Center's David Stringham, Director for Translations in Africa. Today's is an exciting launch, considering in April, they didn't have a fully-formed team. A partner made inquiries and assembled a team of fluent English/Swahili speakers and scholars. The urgency? Several governments in East Africa are looking at adopting Swahili as the official country language. "One of the things that we're looking at accomplishing with this is not only as an outreach tool to people who may not have a strong background in Christianity, but we're looking at this as linguists--the effect Swahili will have in coming years on the development of Africa itself." The team will be working on the Easy-to-Read Bible in i...
Kenya: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KISWAHILI & EMERGENT ISSUES
2007-03-13 11:20:00 Source: African Language Technology INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KISWAHILI & EMERGENT ISSUES Fri, 2007-03-09 09:33 ? GuyVenue: Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya. Dates: 1st - 3rd August 2007 You are invited to submit an ABSTRACT not exceeding 350 words in any of the sub-themes as listed below: Theme: KISWAHILI AND EMERGING ISSUES Sub-themes: 1. Kiswahili & the Millennium Development Goals 2. Kiswahili & politics, culture ...
Swahili, the Kenya Connection
1969-12-31 19:00:00 I was meeting with a group of men in London, England. There was a very handsome man in the group. His skin was a chestnut color, white white teeth, and dark eyes with a wonderful personality. He spoke impeccable English. I could not wait to talk with him and find out ... |
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