Tanzania is set to make a historic shift away from English and replace it with Swahili as the language of instruction in the country’s schools. The new education system launched by President Jakaya ...

Even to Luis Von Ahn, there are a few things about Duolingo, the mobile-phone based language learning app that he co-developed five years ago, that don’t make a lot of obvious sense. Like the fact ...

My generation was not taught Kiswahili, it was not an examinable subject. But circumstances forced us to learn it. We had to communicate with all socio- economic classes. That is the purpose of a ...