Heritage Swahili Academy.
Give Your Child The Language To Belong.
Registration includes a placement conversation to find your child’s right starting level.
Live Kiswahili instruction, taught by real Kenyan teachers, scheduled around your evening, wherever in the world you’ve made your home.
- Online
- Diaspora
- Intake Ongoing
The Moment This Is Really For.
Picture a video call on a Sunday afternoon. A grandmother’s face lights up on the screen. And a child who was born thousands of miles from Kenya greets her, unprompted, in the language she has always dreamed of hearing from her own grandchild. That moment is the entire reason the Heritage Swahili Academy exists.
The Gap We Close.
Over four million Kenyans now live abroad. In 2024 alone, thousands of Kenyan births were registered overseas, most in the United Kingdom and the United States. These children grow up fluent in the language of the country that raised them, and increasingly unable to hold a conversation with their own grandmother.
This isn’t a small, sentimental concern. Language is how a child inherits belonging. Parents who left Kenya for better opportunities didn’t leave so their children would lose their roots along the way, most simply never had a structured, trustworthy way to prevent it. Until now.
Not A Language App.
This is not an app teaching vocabulary in isolation. It’s a deliberate act of reconnection: greetings that let a child properly address their elders, conversation that lets them follow a family gathering, and enough fluency that a video call home becomes a real conversation.
Who This Is For.
Kenyan and Kenyan-heritage children living abroad, of any age, at any starting level, from a child who understands a little but won’t speak, to one starting from nothing, to one who wants to go deeper into culture and not just conversation.
What's Taught.
- Heritage Swahili (Conversational): Everyday spoken Kiswahili, greetings, family conversation, confidence to speak
- Heritage Swahili (Cultural): The culture, context, and unspoken understanding that rides alongside the language
- Academic Maths, Academic English & Academic Sciences: For diaspora families who also want their child supported in core academic subjects, taught by the same TSC-accredited standard
How Classes Are Delivered.
Group Class: Max 20 Students | One-on-One |
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Live classes with other diaspora children on a similar journey, learning together, not alone. Rate: $50 per subject, per month | A dedicated session built entirely around your child’s pace and interests. Rate: |
Payment, Made Simple Pay by card, PayPal, or bank transfer, in your local currency, wherever you live. Lipa Pole Pole is also available for families who’d rather spread the cost. | |
Frequently Asked Questions.
My child doesn't speak any Kiswahili yet. Is that okay?
Completely. Most of our diaspora students start from exactly this point. Classes begin with warm, practical basics and build from there.
Will classes also touch on Kenyan culture, not just language?
Yes, culture is woven through every lesson, not treated as a separate topic.
What if the time difference makes live classes difficult?
Let us know your general availability at registration; we schedule diaspora classes specifically to fit your evening, wherever you are.
Contact Us.
KOFISI Kaskazi
19 General Mathenge Dr.
Westlands, Nairobi, Kenya