Long live Swahili! Long live Gikuyu, Luo, Shona. Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Isizulu, Wolof and all indigenous African languages. Language is a central element of identity.
GREAT RISING FAMILY GIVE THANX TOO THE MOST HIGH AND OUR ANCESTORS STORY 1LUV MELINATED FAMILY BLISSING! BERMUDA IN DA HOUSE FAMILY GREAT VIBRATION TRUE DAT 1LUV KNOW THYSELF! ASE'ASE '
While at Alliance he must have visited Dagoretti Market, my birthplace. l wonder what he thinks of Edward Carey Francis who insisted that the pupils attended school bare foot.
Mother tongues are an evolving communication tool that adapts new words and phrases. Predominantly spoken languages such as African languages are very very adaptive and difficult to write. Our languages are better when spoken. For example Kiswahili is a combination of German, English, bantu, cush, Arabic, Portuguese and many other languages which developed for purpose of communicating between many cultures. If you promote language as a tool for identity then you are wrong. Instead of promoting your language, look for ways to mash up your language with other languages to form a new language (e.g Sheng) isolation is death to a language. Even English is not purely "local" to any part of the world.. It's a coming together of different languages.
why enrich other culture or former colonizers language over our own languages..sounds like voluteer neo-colonialism.. no matter how much you master english as an Afrikan you will never own it..it's not yours.The Prof is right, we need to enrich our own Mother tongues if not we will loose our own identity and become afro europeans..loosing ones own identity is loosing your own knowledge and history..because it can't be passed down or preserved in our former colonizers languages.
Yeah..I didn't really follow his logic. As you say, English is a mashup of many different languages, and continues to grow. I think it is good to preserve smaller languages, and to give them life, but his conflation of local and global languages sounded a bit....Delusional ? For some reason he also seemed to sidestep any kind of comparative linguistic analysis.
Every country in Europe or in Asia has its own language. A japanese, a vietnamese or an italian is proud of his language and learn English as a supplement, not as something necessary to mix with because of the low value or "isolation" of his own language. This idea just comes from african countries. Asia has suffered from colonialism as well, but they know that language shapes your mindset and conveys culture, and yes, they are also a trait of identity. In my opinion, if africans stop using african languages and mix them with english or french, they are just westernizing their culture and identity. There have been other "shengs" spoken by many african groups around the world, specially in America, at the end, they have been just a transition to fully adopt western languages.
Long live Swahili! Long live Gikuyu, Luo, Shona. Yoruba, Igbo, Hausa, Isizulu, Wolof and all indigenous African languages. Language is a central element of identity.
I would have said nilotes ,bantu,cushites, and nomads
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I love and admire him a lot. His takes on language and history are amazing and impressive. He's a master of the word.
This man be a blessing to all the world. Applause!
So grateful for his spirit as well.
I like every bit of his expression. "Weep Not Child" was one of the books that sparked up my interest in literature
We can boldly call him father.. We love him
MY MENTOR..........LOVE HIM
Sharp contrast on set.. On one side a man so proud to be African and opposite him a lady trying so hard to be western.. Found it amusing
I wish you left to flow with the Colonist story.
.it was a very sweet beginning
a true master of literature, am his big fam
GREAT RISING FAMILY GIVE THANX TOO THE MOST HIGH AND OUR ANCESTORS STORY 1LUV MELINATED FAMILY BLISSING!
BERMUDA IN DA HOUSE FAMILY GREAT VIBRATION TRUE DAT 1LUV KNOW THYSELF!
ASE'ASE '
While at Alliance he must have visited Dagoretti Market, my birthplace. l wonder what he thinks of Edward Carey Francis who insisted that the pupils attended school bare foot.
Petals Of Blood, 1977, was written in English
They will not give Ngugi that Nobel thing because he has not spared them the spank
Fact and God has blessed him, he looks like a 45 year old lad
Mother tongues are an evolving communication tool that adapts new words and phrases. Predominantly spoken languages such as African languages are very very adaptive and difficult to write. Our languages are better when spoken. For example Kiswahili is a combination of German, English, bantu, cush, Arabic, Portuguese and many other languages which developed for purpose of communicating between many cultures. If you promote language as a tool for identity then you are wrong. Instead of promoting your language, look for ways to mash up your language with other languages to form a new language (e.g Sheng) isolation is death to a language. Even English is not purely "local" to any part of the world.. It's a coming together of different languages.
why enrich other culture or former colonizers language over our own languages..sounds like voluteer neo-colonialism.. no matter how much you master english as an Afrikan you will never own it..it's not yours.The Prof is right, we need to enrich our own Mother tongues if not we will loose our own identity and become afro europeans..loosing ones own identity is loosing your own knowledge and history..because it can't be passed down or preserved in our former colonizers languages.
Yeah..I didn't really follow his logic. As you say, English is a mashup of many different languages, and continues to grow. I think it is good to preserve smaller languages, and to give them life, but his conflation of local and global languages sounded a bit....Delusional ? For some reason he also seemed to sidestep any kind of comparative linguistic analysis.
Every country in Europe or in Asia has its own language. A japanese, a vietnamese or an italian is proud of his language and learn English as a supplement, not as something necessary to mix with because of the low value or "isolation" of his own language. This idea just comes from african countries. Asia has suffered from colonialism as well, but they know that language shapes your mindset and conveys culture, and yes, they are also a trait of identity. In my opinion, if africans stop using african languages and mix them with english or french, they are just westernizing their culture and identity. There have been other "shengs" spoken by many african groups around the world, specially in America, at the end, they have been just a transition to fully adopt western languages.
l was his UON student the year he was detained
Tumwitaga baba. Nitumwendete muno