Learning Swahili at Northwestern has enhanced my family history
Posted October 21, 2025
By Vrinda Gupta, Northwestern undergraduate student My family has a history of spending brief periods in Kenya, Unfortunately, they spent no time there during...Category: Swahili Corner
Celebrating diversity: Swahili students shine at campus festivals
Posted August 25, 2024
By: Zainab Momany, Foreign Language Teaching Assistant for Swahili Amidst the vibrant cultural exchange and celebration on our campus, I had the privilege of...
Student reflections on learning Swahili
Posted June 8, 2024
by Elianna Phillips, Northwestern undergraduate student On June 2nd, 2004, I was born in the Aga Khan University Hospital in...
Student reflections on learning Swahili
Posted April 24, 2024
by Lauren Gomez, Northwestern undergraduate student Without a doubt, embarking on my journey to learn Swahili has been one of...
My experience at the mid-year Fulbright Foreign Language Assistants conference
Posted November 17, 2023
By: Faith Jebet, Foreign Language Teaching Associate, Swahili program On November 11th, all roads led to Washington, DC, for this year’s Fulbright Foreign Language...
Swahili corner: Student reflections on their experience as Fulbright-Hayes awardees this summer in Kenya
Posted October 15, 2023
Nick Bucciarelli writes “This was my first trip to Kenya, and my first to Africa. Kenyans are proud to be Africans, which is funny...
Swahili corner
Posted February 18, 2023
By: Gabriel West, Northwestern undergraduate student I am in my second year of Swahili and my third year at Northwestern. I postponed taking a...
PAS welcomes new Foreign Language Teaching Associate
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...
Swahili corner
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...
Swahili class at Harambee 2022
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...