[EDLING:1571] Scholar roots for lingua franca status for Kiswahili

[Francis M. Hult]

Kenya Times

Scholar roots for lingua franca status for Kiswahili 

By KIPKIRUI K’TELWA 


Prof Kimani Njogu has, for sometimes, been fighting to ensure Kiswahili does 
not only become Kenya’s official language but is also adopted and used within 
the African Union member states. 

Seeping through his writings over the last five years, one comes across a 
restless man out to see that one of the local languages is domesticated and 
made the lingua franca of the continent that has never known unity of any 
kind. 

Kimani, who is also the chairman of Chama Cha Kiswahili Cha Taifa (CHAKITA), 
wants Kiswahili to be elevated to be at par or even higher than either English 
or French. 

http://www.timesnews.co.ke/15may06/schtimes/sch1.html