Swahili Language & Culture Resources

Introduction to Swahili

• Swahili Language and Culture

Grammar and Vocabulary

• Noun Classification

Reading

• Learn Swahili
• Tusome Kiswahili

Listening & Speaking

• SwahiliPod101
• Kiswahili Folktales and Songs
• Vocabulary and Pronunciation Guide

Cultural Materials

• Swahili Proverbs 
• Mwambao 
• Interesting Facts about Swahili Language and Culture

Online Course Materials

• Teach Yourself Swahili (pdf file)
• Foreign Language Institute Course

Dictionaries and Digital Libraries:

• The Kamusi Project (dictionary)
• AfricanLanguages (dictionary)
• Memrise (vocabulary-learning site)
• Glosbe (dictionary)

Swahili Music:

• East African Tube
• Bongo Radio

Open Educational Resources

• Kiswahili at the University of Kansas 
• Swahili at Boston U

News and Media:

• Voice of America (VOA) News in Swahili from the United States
• BBC Swahili News in Swahili from the UK
• Deutsche Welle (DW-World) News in Swahili from Germany
• Swahili Student Radio from SOAS
• Taifa Leo (Leading Swahili newspaper in Kenya)
• Mwananchi (Tanzanian daily in Swahili)

Other educational websites about Swahili:

• Swahili at Indiana University and Listening Exercises
  ID and Password: afritalk
• Swahili songs and folktales at Indiana University
• Swahili at the University of Pennsylvania
• Swahili resources at the University of Virginia
• Mwambao - Fun Swahili site about superstition, food, riddles, and more
• UCLA language materials page (search for 'Swahili')

UIUC Library resources:

• Africana Film Database
• UIUC Library African Studies Internet Portal
• Africana Library website

General Academic Websites for African Languages:

• Search African Language Resources through Columbia University
• African Languages Program resource page at Indiana University African Studies
• African Studies Center at the University of Pennsylvania
• ALMA African Language Materials Archives

Scholarships and Fellowships

• Foreign and Area Studies Fellowships (FLAS)
• Global South Language Fellowships (GSLF)
• Boren Awards 
• Critical Language Scholarship (CLS)
• African Flagship Language Initiative (AFLI)

Affiliated programs/Institutes 

• Summer Institute for the Languages of the Muslim Word (SILMW)
• Center for African Studies
• Global Studies
• Study Abroad