LINKS - WEB SITES

Only genuine sites, that offer more content than publicity, have been retained in this personal selection of online Kiswahili resources on the web.

SWAHILI

SWAHILI LANGUAGE AND CULTURE
Audio Swahili, Tanzania, kangas exhibition, by Hassan O. Ali.

KISWAHILI HOME PAGE
Introductory Kiswahili Lessons, by AbdulGhany Mohammed and Kassim A. Abdullah.

SWAHILI LANGUAGE
Article on Swahili language and culture, published on Wikipedia.

ONLINE SWAHILI EXERCISES
Numerous gap-fill translation exercises, and vocabulary exercises to test your Swahili, by the University of California.

ARCHIVES OF POPULAR SWAHILI
Letters to the editor from the section Habari za Kwetu in Mwana Shaba : samples of written Swahili from D.R. Congo, published in the 1950s.

BANTU LANGUAGE IDENTFIER
Umqageli, a guesser for Bantu languages, by Jacky Maniacky.

WWW.KWANGU.COM
Verb builder, verb parser, verb derivator, verb builder, by Jacob Knight.

JARIDA LA WANAFUNZI WA KISWAHILI
A Newsletter written by students of Swahili in the USA, University of Pennsylvania.

KIKO - Kiswahili Kwa Komputa
Graded Swahili dialogues and texts, with notes and exercises, by the African Studies Institute, University of Georgia.

KISWAHILI GRAMMAR NOTES
© 1984-1989, H. Erickson & M. Gustafsson. Copyright 1995-2000, Yale program in African languages.

KISWAHILI MATERIALS
Audio Swahili, dialogues, plays, pictures of Kenya, by Jane Irungu, Department of African & African-American Studies, University of Kansas.

KISWAHILI WEB at Upenn
Vocabulary, Crosswords, Conversations, Listening exercises, Reading comprehension at intermediate level, by Mw. Alwiya S. Omar, Mw. Ahmed Shariff, University of Pennsylvania (some parts under construction).

NOUN CLASSIFICATION IN KISWAHILI
A paper on noun classification in Swahili, by Dr Ellen Contini-Morava, University of Virginia.

SWAHILI ONLINE COURSES
Audio Swahili, dialogues, exercises, by the Department of Linguistics at UIUC.

SWAHILI ONLINE STUDY AIDS
Swahili grammar and exercises, by the Center for African Studies, University of Florida.

SWAHILI PROFILE
A general introduction on the Swahili language, by the UCLA language materials project.

VERBIX CONJUGATOR
Swahili verbs conjugator.

KISWAHILI AS A NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL LANGUAGE
A paper on Kiswahili, by M.M. Mulokozi, Institute of Kiswahili Research, University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

SWAHILI ONLINE
A general survey on the Swahili language and its origins.

  
Swahili listening, speaking, reading, and writing resources, by the Faculty of Virginia.

  
Welcome to Kiswahili at Rutgers University.

  KI-SWAHILI
Learning Swahili Vocabulary. Offers a large choice of foreign languages besides kiswahili.

SWAHILI FOR KIDS

  DIGITALDIALECTS-SWAHILI
Welcome to the Swahili Activities Page ! Offers a large choice of many other foreign languages.

OTHER AFRICAN LANGUAGES

BRAVANESE GRAMMAR NOTES
A tentative survey of Bravanese, a Swahili dialect spoken in Brava, on the coast of southern Somalia, by W.H. Whitley.

A Bravanese English dictionary and information on the Bravanese language, by Kassim.

LUGANDA LANGUAGE
offered by BHP, the Buganda Home page.

WIKIPEDIA
A comprehensive description of the LUGANDA language.

GANDA ANCESTRY
Online LUGANDA dictionary.

MAASAI LANGUAGE PROJECT
Phonetics, semantics, and a dictionary of the Maasai language, University of Oregon.

A Northern Sotho - English / English - Northern Sotho dictionary.

A Zulu - English / English - Zulu dictionary.

TANZANIA, ZANZIBAR, KENYA, D.R. of CONGO

OFFICIAL TANZANIA ONLINE GATEWAY
Lots of official informations about Tanzania.

ZANZIBAR UNVEILED
History of Zanzibar, with beautiful pictures, by Barghash.

ZANZIBAR TRAVEL NETWORK
Touristic gateway to Zanzibar, well documented, many links.

ZANZIBARMAGIC.COM
Fun on Paradise Zanzibar Island, beautiful pictures, lots of useful tips for a holiday in Zanzibar.

FONDATION MAISHA
Belgian-Congolese non-profit organization for the reintegration of young people in society, by Pieter-Jan Breyne.

A German concern that organizes safaris in Kenya.

MEDIA

Tanzanian daily news in Swahili, provided by "Mwananchi Communications Limited".

BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION
Audio news in Swahili, from the BBC

INTER PRESS SERVICE
Written news in Swahili.

Attempting to bridge the gap between the western world and Africa this modern site offers loads of cultural, musical, TV and Video links to the Swahili / African Nation

CULTURE

TANZANIA : Cultural Profiles Project
Citizenship and Immigration, Canada.

TANZANIA : Cultural Insights
Department of Foreign Affairs and international Trade, Canada.

KENYA : Cultural Profiles Project
Citizenship and Immigration, Canada.

KENYA : Cultural Insights
Department of Foreign Affairs and international Trade, Canada.

CONGO (D.R.) : Cultural Profiles Project
Citizenship and Immigration, Canada.

CONGO (D.R.) : Cultural Insights
Department of Foreign Affairs and international Trade, Canada.

BAO GAME
Rules of the bao game, play bao online.

BAO (ZANZIBAR)
Detailed rules of the bao game of Zanzibar, by Ken Tidwell.

MUSIC

Watch your favourite Taarab videos on the net.

Popular Tanzanian jazz bands.

SWAHILI LYRICS
A compilation of hundreds of Tanzanian song lyrics in Swahili.

MWAMBAO
Taarab music from Zanzibar.

MZIBO.NET
Bongoflava kibao ! Swahili hiphop music from Tanzania.

MUZIKI WA DANSI
Popular music scene in Tanzania, by Werner Graebner.

TANZANIAN MUSIC
A Guide to African and Tanzanian music.

RELIGION

QUR'ANI TUKUFU
Translation of the Holy Quran in Swahili, by Sheikh Ali Muhsin Al-Barwani.

ONLINE SWAHILI DICTIONARIES

THE KAMUSI PROJECT
Swahili discussion forum and online dictionary, Yale program in African languages.

  SWAHILI - ENGLISH and ENGLISH - SWAHILI
Provided by TshwanexLex.

  SHENG (Swahili slang) - ENGLISH and ENGLISH - SHENG
Sarah Hillewaert's compilation, provided by TshwanexLex.

  FREEDICT ONLINE DICTIONARY
Swahili - English and English - Swahili, provided by Freedict.

  WEBSTER'S ONLINE DICTIONARY

OTHER SITES

All the flags of the world.

WWW.NATIONAL-ANTHEMS.NET
All the national anthems of the world, with MP3 sound files, by Slawek.

THEY SPEAK ABOUT US ON THE WEB !

A review of Mwana Simba by the Online UniLang Monthly Magazine.

A review of Mwana Simba by Languages Online Blogspot.

A short review of Mwana Simba by the UNESCO.

SITES IN FRENCH

To view a selection of sites on Swahili, East Africa and Bantu languages in French, please click here :

WEB SITES IN FRENCH