{"id":34539,"date":"2022-07-13T11:25:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T11:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/broadnews\/?p=34539"},"modified":"2022-07-13T11:25:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T11:25:16","slug":"adopting-kiswahili-as-africas-official-language-will-unite-strengthen-continent-tanzanian-envoy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/broadnews\/2022\/07\/13\/adopting-kiswahili-as-africas-official-language-will-unite-strengthen-continent-tanzanian-envoy\/","title":{"rendered":"Adopting Kiswahili as Africa\u2019s official language will unite, strengthen continent -Tanzanian Envoy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/broadnews\/2021\/12\/09\/tanzania60-mission-advocates-constant-dialogue-for-political-economic-development-in-africa\/\">Dr Benson Bana, Tanzanian High Commissioner to Nigeria<\/a> on Tuesday, said that the adoption of Kiswahili as Africa\u2019s official language by the African Union (AU) will help unite, strengthen the continent and bridge diversities.<\/p>\n<p>Bana made this known n Abuja at the pre-event news briefing ahead of the inaugural World Kiswahili Language Day celebration on\u00a0July 14.<\/p>\n<p>Bana said that the adoption of a working language among African countries will foster the integration of the AU agenda and the realisation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/broadnews\/2022\/07\/09\/african-leaders-reiterate-commitment-to-seize-key-opportunities-to-develop-continent\/\">African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA).<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The High Commissioner said that the AU adopted Kiswahili as the Continent\u2019s official language in February \u00a02022 because it is the most spoken language on the continent among almost three hundred million AU citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Bana explained that adopting a common language in Africa will help bridge the diversities among countries of the continent, the diversities he further urged African citizens to leverage on positively.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe live in diversities and diversities are inescapable in the African continent. We subscribe to different religions, different political orientation, different ideologies, but we should take our diversities as our strength.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason why I think this decision would have been made a long time ago is to have a unifying factor, a language that unifies Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the AU level, it is English, French, Arabic, Portuguese. Why not Kiswahili, why not Hausa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving a common language today, Kiswahili is the right decision, at the right time and in the right direction. Let us live in our diversities but have a common unifying factor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll Tanzanians, we are about sixty million today but we all speak Kiswahili today, that has become our unifying factor. We sacrificed a lot, the languages of about one hundred and twenty-five tribes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey speak their mother tongue language fine, but we do not use those languages at the National level because they have divisive tendencies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKiswahili is spoken by about two hundred and fifty to three hundred million people in Eastern Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa,\u201d Bana said.<\/p>\n<p>Bana however urged African leaders to embrace the AU\u2019s decision to enable the continent have a unifying factor, the language to free citizens of member countries from the lingua divides created by the colonial masters.<\/p>\n<p>The High Commissioner noted that the Tanzanian High Commission in Nigeria is also in talks with the Nigerian government and Institutions to incorporate Swahili into their learning curriculum.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we speak today, South Africa decided to introduce Kiswahili learning in its educational establishment, a bold decision. We need a language that will solidify, that will coheres the African continent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are in the process of advising countries to choose Kiswahili as a learning package.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Nigeria at the mission level, we are in discussion with the University of Port Harcourt and come August 2022, the University of Port Harcourt leadership and the University of Dar E Salam in Tanzania will be signing a Memorandum of Understanding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been working closely with the Voice of Nigeria and they have already signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Tanzanian Broadcasting Cooperation to share programmes in Kiswahili.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we start to convince our African countries that Kiswahili should become our lingua franca, our official language, I think we can go a long way.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow that we have established an African Continental Free Trade Agreement, under the auspices of the African Union, if our leaders stay firm, that will serve as headway to realizing the objectives of \u00a0the AfCFTA,\u201d Bana said.<\/p>\n<p>Bana said that the High Commission will\u00a0on July 14\u00a0in Abuja celebrate the Inaugural \u201cWorld Kiswahili Day under the mandate of the government of the United Republic of Tanzania which is the home of Kiswahili.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the event will be celebrated by all Tanzanian Missions abroad under the mandate of its government.<\/p>\n<p>Reports have it that on Feb. 10, 2022, the Summit of the AU Heads of State and Government officially adopted Kiswahili as the continent\u2019s official language following a request from Tanzanian\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withinnigeria.com\/broadnews\/2021\/12\/11\/n187m-consultancy-service-deal-predates-dikios-tenure-presidential-amnesty-programme\/\">Vice President<\/a>, Philip Mpango.<\/p>\n<p>Our correspondent also reports that the idea of Swahili as a pan-African language was pushed in the 1960s by Tanzania\u2019s first President Julius Nyerere, who used Swahili to unify his nation after independence.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, English is the official or second language in 27 out of the 54 countries in Africa, and French is the official language in 21 of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Benson Bana, Tanzanian High Commissioner to Nigeria on Tuesday, said that the adoption of Kiswahili as Africa\u2019s official language by the African Union (AU) will help unite, strengthen the continent and bridge diversities. 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