remembered the author as a person who nurtured talent. Mr Mutua told the BBC's Peter Mwai that Prof Walibora loved three things: Swahili, humanity and football. On Twitter, a Kenyan described Prof ...

With more than 200 million speakers, Swahili, which originated in East Africa, is one of the world's 10 most widely spoken languages and, as Priya Sippy writes, there is a renewed push for it to ...