A national language alone is not enough to foster nation-building
Tuesday April 13 2021
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In 2005, I wrote an article in the Daily Monitor about the turbulent post-independence political history of Uganda, in which I attributed the turbulence to two factors; lack of a national language and having gotten independence on a silver platter. In that article, I explained how these two factors shaped our post-independence era, all the while comparing the pre to post independence data sheets on governance – one for Uganda and the other for Kenya and Tanzania.
The argument I put across then was that unlike Uganda, the two countries had remained relatively stable politically because of the universal use of Swahili language that transcends ethnic and cultural horizons. I also postulated that the violent independence struggle – the Mau Mau rebellion that Kenya fought had galvanised national unity amongst all Kenyans that it was responsible for the county’s stabilit
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