Constitution: Strengthen the Place of Indigenous Languages

Language 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 ...