By the turn of the second millennium, Swahili people embraced Islam, and some of their grand mosques still stand at the UNESCO World Heritage sites of Lamu in Kenya and Kilwa in Tanzania.

Tom Jelpke, a researcher of Swahili at London's School of Oriental and African Studies, argues that as connections grow across the continent, people will want a common way to communicate.

Storing water was essential to the livelihood of the Swahili people, who flourished along the coast of East Africa from the seventh to sixteenth century A.D. Many still live there today.

Kiswahili is a Bantu language native to the Swahili people who live along the Indian Ocean coast of East Africa. The number of Kiswahili speakers, be they native or second-language speakers ...

Women were taken as sex slaves. Arab traders began to settle among the Africans of the coast, resulting in the emergence of a people and culture known as Swahili. In the second half of the 18th ...

Swahili is the national language of Tanzania, which is home to 59.7 million people. There are over a hundred languages spoken in Tanzania, but Swahili is spoken by 90% of the nation and is what ...