Tuesday, February 26, 2008

A Short History of the Swahili Language

Kelvin Odoobo from Kigali, writes an entertaining piece about the history of the Swahili language. His opening starts with "A common saying, that Swahili was born in Zanzibar, grew up in Tanzania, fell sick in Kenya, died in Uganda and was buried in Congo...” Read on, his article is informative and entertaining. The picture in this post is of a boat off the Zanzibar coast. Wasalam!