As East Africa moves closer to Integration, we have realized that many East Africans in countries like Uganda can barely speak the Swahili language.
We are here to help those who are interested in learning the language. We want to teach them.
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can you feel the beat and rhythm within the air' says the Masai as they smile and jump into the sky...in Africa we dance beautifully and so is our story
about Dance i must write...
picha -picture/photograph
1. Msichana anachora picha ya mnyama
Agirl is drawing an animal's picture
2.Nilipigwa picha nikiwa kule shuleni
A photo of me was taken while at school .
Aina za rangi-Types of colours
kijani kibichi-Green
samawati /bluu-Blue
nyeusi-Black
omba-ask,pray
imba -sing
ita-call
ukuta-wall
uma -bite
uza-sell
Mimi-me,wewe-you,sisi-us.
binti mfalme -princess
bin mfalme-prince
mfalme-king
malkia-queen
Kiswahili is a lingua franca and one of the few African languages spoken world wide. It is one of the fastest growing languages in the world which is also the official language of the East African Community. Uganda Government recognizes the importance of Kiswahili as a regional and International language that can foster unity among the people of Uganda.
Given this background, the Government of Uganda is trying to lay rigorous strategies for the development and teaching of Kiswahili in order to put the country at the same footing with other East African Partner States.
In October 2006, the Parliament of Uganda passed a bill that made Kiswahili a second official language after English.
12/06/2013
True, the idea to implement the teaching and promotion of Kiswahili in Ugandan schools has met with stiff resistance from some educationists and citizens, especially from the central region.
This is attributed to the fact that Kiswahili used to be a means of communication associated with the brutal armed forces of former dictatorial regimes of Idi Amin and Milton Obote during the time when many Ugandans lost lives and property at the hands of such forces.
But some believe it’s now time to forget the past and live on with the language spoken by the largest number of people in the region.
http://www.observer.ug/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=10162:why-kiswahili-teaching-remains-difficult
Why Kiswahili teaching remains difficult True, the idea to implement the teaching and promotion of Kiswahili in Ugandan schools has met with stiff resistance from some educationists and citizens, especially from the central region.
This article was picked from the Daily Monitor and of Today 10th June 2013 pg. 18 and Authored by John K.Abimanyi and I thought it was worth sharing with the friends on this page.
Why you should be interested...
Kiswahili Usage in Uganda
Even before the Members of the East African Legislative Assembly and Uganda's President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, got to making it a talking issue last week, it was already too apparent that we need to up our game in our usage of Kiswahili, it is the defacto language of the region, one, without which you can hardly survive in places such as Tanzania.
The language is spoken in South Sudan to the North, Kenya to the East, Tanzania to the South West, the DR Congo to the West, and we, Uganda are right in the middle, but seem entirely aloof to it. Sitting right in the middle of the gem-field of a market makes Uganda strategically placed, and tuning ourselves into the right communication channels will enable us to tap the opportunities that abound.
The president promised that he will follow the matter of teaching Kiswahili in lower primary school personally. It is not the first time that he saying something along those lines. The intention to fully integrate Kiswahili lessons into our syllabus ha been around us for decades now. But it has not been implemented, and the president has indeed been the head of state close to three decades now.
You should be concerned enough to register the importance of that language (Swahili) to Uganda's survival and the competitive advantage within the region. We would surely not want to be left behind by the bus that finally drives East Africa into economic maturity. And that is why you should be concerned about Swahili.
19/02/2015