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Jul 29, 2022 · The decision by the Ugandan cabinet to adopt Kiswahili as an official language and recommendation that it be mandatory in primary and secondary schools did not sit well with Ugandans, who have a complicated history with the language.
- The origins. The historical lands of the Swahili are on East Africa’s Indian Ocean littoral. A 2,500-kilometer chain of coastal towns from Mogadishu, Somalia to Sofala, Mozambique as well as offshore islands as far away as the Comoros and Seychelles.
- African unity. The roll of Swahili enthusiasts and advocates includes notable intellectuals, freedom fighters, civil rights activists, political leaders, scholarly professional societies, entertainers and health workers.
- A liberation language. During the decades leading up to the independence of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania in the early 1960s, Swahili functioned as an international means of political collaboration.
- Socialist overtones. Nyerere even made the term Swahili a referent to Tanzanian citizenship. Later, this label acquired socialist overtones in praising the common men and women of the nation.
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Jul 19, 2022 · I support this development wholeheartedly and believe the entire sub-Saharan continent should adopt Kiswahili as an official language. Here is why. Currently, there is no indigenous...
Sep 1, 2016 · Globally, around 5 million people speak Swahili as a native language, and a further 135 million speak it as a second language. Despite the popularity of Kiswahili in East African countries, especially among locals, it is yet to be adopted as their first official language.
Jul 6, 2017 · Swahili has been adopted as the official language for the East African Community (EAC), of which South Sudan is its latest member after it deposited the instruments of ratification on the Accession to the EAC Treaty last year.
Hailed as the foremost champion of the growth of Kiswahili as an African language, his "Swahilization' policy saw Tanzania, a country with 120 indigenous languages, adopt Kiswahili as its...
Feb 10, 2022 · The Africa Union, which is made up of 55 member states, has officially adopted Swahili as an official working language. The approval comes following a request by Tanzanian Vice President Philip ...
