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Are Your Children Speaking Your Mother Tongue?

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One morning in around 1992, I went to consult with Professor Kembo Sure who was taking us in a course in language acquisition at Moi University. I observed that the don was working on some charts meant for primary schools in the then created Suba District. Sixteen years down the lane I have come to understand the gravity of the assignment. The task was an attempt at reviving and conserving language of the minority Suba which was under threat by Dholuo spoken by the domineering Luo people.

It is now a major concern of linguists that minority languages are threatened with extinction as their dominant neighbours gain wider acceptability as regional or national lingua francas especially in the African continent.

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Constitution: Strengthen the Place of Indigenous Languages

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The Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga launches the Harmonised Draft Consitution. Right: Nzamba Kitonga, Chairman of the Committee of Experts on the Draft ConstitutionLanguage is a cultural tool for the easy identification of a people and should be allowed to be learnt from birth to adulthood for the promotion of a people's culture and tradition. In East Africa apart from Tanzania, English is threatening other indigenous languages because government policies jealously guard its usage as a means of official communication. Virtually, everybody in every circumstance tries to accommodate the use of English language and the indigenous languages are threatened in terms of career opportunities. The English language is dangling like the sword of Damocles; because the better English you speak, the more you uphold your social-economic status in the society.

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Kenya to Adopt Double Shift in Secondary Schools

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Selected secondary schools in Kenya are set to double the number of Form One students come 2010. This move is to enable the government to increase the transition rate from primary to secondary schools from up from the current 50% to 70%. Opening of extra classes in secondary schools is a response to the demand for more Form One places occasioned by high enrolment witnessed in primary schools as a result of the implementation of the Free Primary Education (FPE) policy at the onset of 2003. In 2009 over 770, 000 candidates sat for the Kenya Certificate of Secondary education ...

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