The Tanzanian government will establish offices in foreign countries
for the teaching of Kiswahili, a senior official said Tuesday.
Deputy Minister for Information, Youth, Culture and Sports Amos
Makalla said in an interview that the government will open a Kiswahili
teaching office in Ethiopia’s Addis Ababa very soon. Thereafter,
Tanzanian embassies will get instruction on setting up offices in
countries where they are accredited.
Makalla said the move will help strengthen Kiswahili, which for over
50 years, has been one of the unifying factors of Tanzanians and is
currently being promoted to become the East African Community (EAC)
lingua franca. The language is also recognized and used in the African
Union and the United Nations.
The Tanzanian Parliament last Thursday ratified a protocol on the
establishment of the East African Kiswahili Commission, making Tanzania
the second country that has ratified it after Kenya.
Ugandan parliament is yet to ratify the protocol, though it is one of
the three countries which initially worked on it. Burundi and Rwanda
have already placed their requests with the EAC secretariat to work for
the promotion of Kiswahili, but will have to wait until the initial
signatories of the protocol, including Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda,
ratify it.
source- Frank Makange BLOG
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