SWAHILI ARTS AND CRAFT TRAINING

The Research Institute of Swahili Studies of Eastern Africa - RISSEA through the Swahili Cultural Centres in Mombasa and Lamu, is a famous training institution, that allow youths to undertake courses at certificate level, in traditional skills in  woodcarving, carpentry or joinery, dressmaking and traditional embroidery. Every year RISSEA advertises for the course intake to youth of both genders to enroll for the courses with the following requirements:

• The course duration is flexible and depends on ones ability but is not more than two years
• Should be a Kenya citizen preferably between the age of 16 to 25
• Should have completed primary school education or above

Dress-making class

Plans are underway to develop these courses by offering them to a Diploma level through a partnerships with other Institutions of higher learning. These courses were developed, due to the need to not only revive dying Swahili arts and Crafts but also serve to preserve and keep alive the rich treasure of Swahili culture that is to be found in the Old towns of Mombasa, Lamu, Zanzibar and other similar old towns.

A Swahili Pilipili bed