GENEVA — The Tanzanian government’s system of rounding up children with albinism in state-run education centers isn’t adequately protecting them from widespread superstitious beliefs that ...

Translating Swahili language and knowledge in colonial and post-colonial Tanzania. In the 1940s, a student from Kenya named James Gekonyo applied to the Chemistry Department of Makerere University ...

Swahili has been a recorded written language for centuries and traces its roots back over 1,200 years, but colonial-era European academics became interested in the language because they ...

When Makenzie Dowlin noticed the lion sniffing at the tire of her parked, open-roof truck, she stood on the passenger seat to get a better view of the beast. “I didn’t feel scared,” said the ...

It is at long last that the first collection of stories, No Edges, translated from Swahili into English, launched in April.The anthology is published by the San Francisco-based Two Lines Press, part ...