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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tanzanian leader Julius Nyerere, a Swahili advocate. Keystone/Getty Images Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu ...

English is Uganda’s official language - but wouldn’t it make sense to adopt a few more along with it? Joshua Wanyama/Africa Knows There are 41 living languages in Uganda. But only three are ever ...

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 ...

Syracuse, N.Y. — A new list from Stacker found that residents in the Greater Syracuse area speak a variety of languages in their homes. More than 91% of people in the Syracuse-Auburn area speak only ...