 For Serafina Atibu of Howard University, it is really gratifying for her to see the growing interest in the language. Swahili was actually her first language. She's Congolese and grew up at a refugee camp in Kenya, but she lost a lot of her language abilities when she moved to the United States. It kind of gives it a sense of power and a sense of value to know that it's not just us that sees the goodness and the greatness to it, but there's also getting recognition from outside as well.