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“Most people write me off when they see me. They do not know my story. They say I am just an African. They judge me before they get to know me. What they do not know is The pride I have in the blood that runs through my veins; The pride I have in my rich culture and the history of my people; The pride I have in my strong family ties and the deep connection to my community; The pride I have in the African music, African art, and African dance; The pride I have in my name and the meaning behind it. Just as my name has meaning, I too will live my life with meaning. So you think I am nothing? Don’t worry about what I am now, For what I will be, I am gradually becoming. I will raise my head high wherever I go Because of my African pride, And nobody will take that away from me.”

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Book:Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams

Source: Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams

“You can no longer see or identify yourself solely as a member of a tribe, but as a citizen of a nation of one people working toward a common purpose.”

Book:Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams

Source: Wealth for all Africans: How Every African Can Live the Life of Their Dreams

“Kiswahili ni lugha rasmi ya nchi za Tanzania, Kenya na Uganda. Ni lugha isiyo rasmi ya nchi za Rwanda, Burundi, Msumbiji na Jamhuri ya Kidemokrasia ya Kongo. Lugha ya Kiswahili ni mali ya nchi za Afrika ya Mashariki, si mali ya nchi za Afrika Mashariki peke yake. Pia, Kiswahili ni lugha rasmi ya Umoja wa Afrika; pamoja na Kiarabu, Kiingereza, Kifaransa, Kireno na Kihispania. Kiswahili ni lugha inayozungumzwa zaidi nchini Tanzania kuliko nchi nyingine yoyote ile, duniani.”

Culture Language Africa Kenya Rwanda Mother Tongue Uganda Arabic Tanzania Arabs Kolonia Santita Enock Maregesi Afrika East Africa Mozambique Swahili African Union Burundi Kiswahili African Languages Lugha Utamaduni Afrika Mashariki Swahili Language African Great Lakes Democratic Republic Of The Congo Bantu Afrika Ya Mashariki Atlantic Congo Languages Bantu People Bantu Peoples Bantus Benue Congo Languages Comorian Language Comoro Islands Eastern Africa Familia Ya Lugha Ya Kiswahili Historia Ya Kiswahili Jamhuri Ya Kidemokrasia Ya Kongo Kiarabu Kibantu Kiproto Kusini Mashariki Mwa Afrika Lugha Ya Asili Lugha Ya Kibantu Lugha Ya Kisabaki Lugha Ya Kiswahili Lugha Ya Visiwa Vya Komoro Lugha Ya Visiwa Vya Ngazija Lugha Za Afrika Msumbiji Mto Sabaki Nchi Za Ukanda Wa Maziwa Makuu Niger Congo Language Family Northeast Coast Bantu Proto Bantu Sabaki Language Sabaki River Southeast Africa Southern Bantoid Languages Swahili History Swahili Language Family Swahili People Swahili Peoples Umoja Wa Afrika Visiwa Vya Komoro Visiwa Vya Ngazija Waarabu Wabantu Waswahili

Author:Enock Maregesi

“Kiswahili ni lugha ya Kibantu na lugha kuu ya kimataifa ya biashara ya Afrika ya Mashariki ambayo; maneno yake mengi yamepokewa kutoka katika lugha za Kiarabu, Kireno, Kiingereza, Kihindi, Kijerumani na Kifaransa, kutoka kwa wakoloni waliyoitawala pwani ya Afrika ya Mashariki katika kipindi cha karne tano zilizopita. Lugha ya Kiswahili ilitokana na lugha za Kisabaki za Afrika Mashariki; ambazo nazo zilitokana na Lugha za Kibantu za Pwani ya Kaskazini Mashariki za Tanzania na Kenya, zilizotokana na lugha zaidi ya 500 za Kibantu za Afrika ya Kusini na Kati. Lugha za Kibantu zilitokana na lugha za Kibantoidi, ambazo ni lugha zenye asili ya Kibantu za kusini mwa eneo la Wabantu, zilizotokana na jamii ya lugha za Kikongo na Kibenue – tawi kubwa kuliko yote ya familia ya lugha za Kikongo na Kinijeri katika bara la Afrika. Familia ya lugha za Kikongo na Kibenue ilitokana na jamii ya lugha za Kiatlantiki na Kikongo; zilizotokana na familia ya lugha za Kikongo na Kinijeri, ambayo ni familia kubwa ya lugha kuliko zote duniani kwa maana ya lugha za kikabila. Familia ya lugha ya Kiswahili imekuwepo kwa karne nyingi. Tujifunze kuzipenda na kuzitetea lugha zetu kwa faida ya vizazi vijavyo.”

Culture Language Africa Kenya Rwanda Mother Tongue Uganda Arabic Future Generations Tanzania Arabs Kolonia Santita Enock Maregesi Afrika East Africa Mozambique Swahili African Union Burundi Kiswahili African Languages Lugha Vizazi Vijavyo Utamaduni Afrika Mashariki Swahili Language African Great Lakes Democratic Republic Of The Congo Bantu Afrika Ya Mashariki Atlantic Congo Languages Bantu People Bantu Peoples Bantus Benue Congo Languages Comorian Language Comoro Islands Eastern Africa Familia Ya Lugha Ya Kiswahili Historia Ya Kiswahili Jamhuri Ya Kidemokrasia Ya Kongo Kiarabu Kibantu Kiproto Kusini Mashariki Mwa Afrika Lugha Ya Asili Lugha Ya Kibantu Lugha Ya Kisabaki Lugha Ya Kiswahili Lugha Ya Visiwa Vya Komoro Lugha Ya Visiwa Vya Ngazija Lugha Za Afrika Msumbiji Mto Sabaki Nchi Za Ukanda Wa Maziwa Makuu Niger Congo Language Family Northeast Coast Bantu Proto Bantu Sabaki Language Sabaki River Southeast Africa Southern Bantoid Languages Swahili History Swahili Language Family Swahili People Swahili Peoples Umoja Wa Afrika Visiwa Vya Komoro Visiwa Vya Ngazija Waarabu Wabantu Waswahili

Author:Enock Maregesi

“This is one of the consequences of a superior education, you see. In this independent, hundred-per-cent-empowered and fully and totally indigenous blacker-than-black country, a superior education is one that the whites would value, and as whites do not value local languages at the altar of what the whites deem supreme. So it was in colonial times, and so it remains, more than thirty years later.”

Language Race Education Colonialism Africa Zimbabwe Dialect African Languages White Wash Miseducation Shona Local Languages

Book:The Book of Memory

Source: The Book of Memory

“Expressions to designate homosexuality exist in some fifty (Sub-Saharan) African languages - gor-jigeen in Wolof, ngochani in Shona, Hasini in Nandi, 'yan daudu in Hausa, mashoga ("passive" homosexual), mabasha ("virile" partner) in Kiswahili. [They refer] to ancestral practices in "traditional", that is pre-industrial, societies [...].”

Homosexuality In Africa African Languages

Book:Out in Africa: Same-Sex Desire in Sub-Saharan Literatures and Cultures

Source: Out in Africa: Same-Sex Desire in Sub-Saharan Literatures and Cultures

“The manner in which the exclusionary nature of the English language is used in knowledge prodution separates us as humans.”

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Author:Malebo Sephodi