After Tanzania's independence in 1961, the country's leader, Julius Nyerere, made Swahili the national language to unite its people. Walter Bgoya recounts how the country changed.

Tanzania: Mkuki Bgoya - 'Swahili Writers Should Be Mandatory Reading in Tanzania, but There's a Deep Trauma Around Books' 30 July 2024 ...

Found in translation Article by Diane Stopyra Photos courtesy of Makenzie Dowlin June 11, 2025 Blue Hen Makenzie Dowlin receives Critical Language Scholarship to study Swahili in Tanzania When ...

Tanzania's first president Julius Nyerere used Swahili as an anti-colonial rallying cry and symbol, stressing the connection between the language and the nascent nation.

DAR ES SALAAM, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) -- Swahili Fashion Week, the annual fashion event in Africa, kicked off in Tanzania's port city of Dar es Salaam on Friday night, attracting over 50 fashion ...

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 ...

He said if the CAF gives Tanzania the green light to broadcast the AFCON 2023 in Swahili, the East African nation will dispatch a team from the state-run Tanzania Broadcasting Corporation to Cote ...

It is at long last that the first collection of stories, No Edges, translated from Swahili into English, launched in April.

DAR ES SALAAM, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- Tanzanian authorities said on Monday that they have submitted an application to the Confederation of African Football (CAF) to broadcast in Swahili the Africa ...