Include indigenous languages in the curriculum

Ebila, Makerere University, Kampala- Uganda

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2012-11-04 10:36

The move to scrap off the teaching of local languages in Ugandan schools is shortsighted and embarrassing to say the least. Uganda is the only country in the East African Region that has two 'non indigenous' languages as the national language- i.e Swahili and English. While it is good to embrace modernity, read abandoning our traditions and languages, I think it is suicidal for us to neglect and not fight for the promotion of indigenous languages alongside the Western and other African languages that are considered to be regional languages like Kiswahili. Local languages should be taught and promoted because that is the root of our culture and the means of our expression.