Posted November 17, 2023
By: Faith Jebet On November 11th, all roads led to Washington, DC, for this year’s Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants (FLTA) from different...
Posted October 15, 2023
Swahili corner: Nick Bucciarelli writes “This was my first trip to Kenya, and my first to Africa. Kenyans are proud to be Africans,...
Posted February 18, 2023
By: Gabriel West I am in my second year of Swahili and my third year at Northwestern. I postponed taking a language course due...
Posted September 20, 2022
PAS welcomes new Foreign Language Teaching Associate Faith Jebet Bitok. holds a BEd from Kenyatta University in Nairobi. She has also completed a short...
Posted September 15, 2022
Northwestern’s Swahili program is part of what attracted me to the University. I knew I wanted to learn a nontraditional language and I had...
Posted February 21, 2022
by Janet Ochieng, Fulbright foreign language teaching assistant for Swahili A clip of students performing “Wageni Wako Wapi.” To join in Black History Month...
Posted July 31, 2021
Beach signs translated from English to Swahili by Prof. Peter Mwangi’s Swahili students. Stay safe on the beach this summer! ...
Posted June 14, 2021
by Nina Fridman, junior, Northwestern University When I first came to Northwestern, Weinberg’s six-class language requirement felt like a chore. I was uninterested in...
Posted March 18, 2021
by Brandon Joseph, sophomore, Northwestern University I initially joined the Swahili program because one of my football team-mates recommended it. I did not know...
Posted February 25, 2021
This winter quarter, Prof. Peter Mwangi’s Swahili students translated Covid-19 safety signs around Northwestern University’s campus from English to Swahili. ...