Kadaga urges legislators to embrace and participate in the second East African Kiswahili language day.

 

The First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for East African Community Affairs, Rt. Hon. Rebecca Kadaga has urged legislators to embrace and participate in the second East African Kiswahili language day.     

While addressing the media today 5th July 2023 which was attended by several legislators from the East African parliament, Kadaga showed concerns as to why Africans embrace the English language more than Kiswali.

Uganda will host World Kiswahili Day from the  06th  to the 07th of July 2023 under the theme, ‘Kiswahili and Multilingualism: Achieving more together’.

“This year’s theme demonstrates that as Kiswahili grows and spreads across the world, it will continue encountering other languages which stand to achieve more together than they can gain alone,” Kadaga said.

Although for so long the communities in Uganda have always regarded it as a language of thugs and criminals, Kadaga referred to this as a narrative that was just planted in Africa by the  European colonialists.

"The whites colonialist who spoke English were thugs who came here to take our land, Gold, Ivory, and other items, they made us think our languages are not important, lets embress our Kiswali becouse we are Africans" - Kadaga.

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