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Your choice of 1,000 basic words in more languages than you will ever need, including Arabic, Yiddish, Serbo-Croatian and Swahili. SelecTronics...
...seasonal greeting to your list: Habari gani. It is Swahili for "What's new?" and the salutation for millions of African Americans who celebrate Kwanzaa, a seven-day holiday that begins on Dec. 26. Inaugurated 25 years ago as a black-nationalist celebration of familial and social values, the festivities are now being embraced by the black mainstream...
Kwanzaa is patterned after various African agricultural festivals, and the name derives from the Swahili word for first fruit of the harvest. It was created by Maulana Karenga, a black-studies professor at California State University, Long Beach. The purpose of the holiday, he says, is to help black people "rescue and reconstruct our history and culture and shape them in our own image...
Asani teaches a popular Core course, "The Religion and Culture of Islam," and offers instruction in Bengali, Gujarati, Oriya, Sindhi, and Urdu--the third most common language in the world. In addition, Asani teaches Swahili, the only sub-Saharan African language offered at Harvard...
...classic institution from within. Realizing, as Anderson stresses, that Eton must prepare its students for a more international world, it has opened its doors to more and more scholarship students and to boys from Germany, the Soviet Union and Spain. Latin is fading toward obsolescence, while Arabic, Japanese and Swahili are / all on the curriculum. In a sense, the place is drawing closer to its founder's original notion of a truly "public" school. "It is a privileged school," acknowledges Anderson, an energetic and articulate Scotsman from a family of royal kilt makers, "with beautiful buildings in a beautiful setting...