The dataset comprises Swahili and Dholuo short-text data curated for topic classification tasks spanning 12 distinct topics: Social Setting, Agriculture and Food, Healthcare, Religion and Culture, Ceremony, Business and Finance, Automotive and Transport, Sports and Entertainment, Nature and Environment, Education and Technology, News and Media, and History and Government. This resource is designed to facilitate research and development in low-resource language processing, particularly for thematic analysis and classification.