Editor’s note: This personal essay was written following a Twitter campaign organized by Global Voices sub-Saharan Africa and Rising Voices where each week, a different language activist shared their ...

The idea for the collection came about when Kelsey McFaul, who was finishing her PhD at the University of Santa Cruz on literature from East Africa, connected with Two Lines Press which was looking to ...

There's nothing like going to Mass celebrated in your own language. But for many new arrivals to the United States, English is not their first language. When Pope Francis launched a consultation ...

Medadi Ssentanda is affiliated with Makerere University and Stellenbosch University. Judith Nakayiza does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that ...

Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu tongue, Swahili has evolved into Africa's most internationally recognised language. It is peer to the few languages of the world that boast over ...