usually , when u speak about/for a single language for Africa or all African , people go like why? i have my language , i hold my culture blah blah blah . please . we are not asking you to forget about your own languages or to not teach it whenever/wherever you feel like. However what we are saying that the language we are going to select will b the official one(u know what it implies). yes it is a shame that we are still using foreign languages as our official languages . Don't know for you but i don't know any developed country using a foreign language as his official language .

i know some people will ask the link between wealth/development and language . well it is pretty simple . We don't think African .trust me language play a great part in the way you behave and think . language is culture. by using foreign languages you are adopting their culture , the way they think .yes oo i said that. if we want to b free , we should start with such things.

i'm not fluent in Kiswahili , in fact i will also learn from this thread. however i'm doing some courses.

Now Kudo to Uganda , Kenya , Rwanda Burundi , Tanzania and DRC for putting Kiswahili as their official languages .

there are actually 140M people who speak Kiswahili .

Swahili Basics

Swahili is one of the easiest languages to learn. Here are a few basic things to know about Swahili:

Swahili verbs always carry with them the subject (and sometimes the object) and the tense. For example, Ninakula, is a complete sentence which means "I am eating". Ni- prefix stands for the subject "I", the -na- affix stands for "am" showing the tense i.e. the "present continuous" tense, and -kula is the root of the verb "eat".

Another example, Alitupa zawadi which means "He/She gave us gifts". First of all note that in the Swahili language, the pronouns are the same for all the genders - he, him, she, and her are not distinguishable in Swahili - same words, prefixes, affixes and suffixes are used. The well sought after "gender equality" is in-built in the Swahili language!! Now back to the sentence. The prefix A- stands for the subject "He" or "She", the -li- affix indicates the past tense, the -tu- affix stands for the object "us", and -pa is the root of the verb "give".

More examples:

Nilikula - I ate
Nimekula - I have eaten
Ninakula - I am eating
Nitakula - I will eat

Kiswahili kitanda! I love to learn this language too mais cameroonpride sais-tu par harsard ou l'on enseigne au Nigeria?

NeuroBoss: Kiswahili kitanda! I love to learn this language too mais cameroonpride sais-tu par harsard ou l'on enseigne au Nigeria?

nope. i don't even think we have a Kiswahili center in Cameroon .

brb

only bantu speaks swahili,sorry naija we not agree coz they are too proud of their language nd learning other language means u forgone urs.

hardniola: only bantu speaks swahili,sorry naija we not agree coz they are too proud of their language nd learning other language means u forgone urs.

don't u speak English and your language. Besides Nigeria has a big Bantu population.