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Kiswahili Should Be The Official Language Of Africa by mulattoclaroo(op): 9:51pm On Mar 20, 2017

People of colour make up one third of the world's population and due to this factor the need to have a central language every African anywhere in the world can relate with is necessary. By the term "African" I am equally referring to Caribbeans (Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Dominican Republic, Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados etc), African Americans, Afro-Cubans, Afro-Brazilians, Afro-Argentines, Afro-Colombians, Afro-Costa Ricans, Afro-Venezuelans, Afro-Mexicans and every country in the Americas where there's an African population outside the continent of Africa.

Recently a lot of African Americans have been migrating to Ghana, Sierra Leone and other parts of Africa and they're also connecting more with their African identity. This to me is a step in the right direction because they are Africans who were displaced by the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and the Trans Saharan Slave Trade. Let's put aside the global separation amongst melanated people because at the end of the day we are all Africans. Let's equally reach out to the Dravidian people of India, Aboriginal Australians, Samoans, Papua New Guineas and every melanated person from the Pacifics as well.

I am half Nigerian and half German but I've long embraced my African spirit because Black people are the root of every civilization and from which every race evolved. Before the demise of great Pan Africanists like Mummar Gadaffi, Kwame Nkwurah, Patrice Lumumba, Thomas Sankara, Marcus Garvey and the Great emperor Hallie Selassie, they preached Pan Africanism and the need to embrace our African spirit. It's time to have an African Central Bank and also a unitary currency to put an end to modern day slavery and Neo-colonialism.

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Re: Kiswahili Should Be The Official Language Of Africa by stephleena(f): 9:55pm On Mar 20, 2017

I suggest Igbo language instead..

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Re: Kiswahili Should Be The Official Language Of Africa by mulattoclaroo(op): 10:07pm On Mar 20, 2017

stephleena:
I suggest Igbo language instead..

why igbo?

Re: Kiswahili Should Be The Official Language Of Africa by Nowenuse: 11:16pm On Mar 20, 2017

I also wished for this, but it would never be possible.
Swahili as it stands has not even succeeded in dominating the whole East Africa let alone adding west, central and southern Africa.
I would have suggested that an artificial language be created from a blend of the various subsaharan african languages but the history of artificial language creation has not worked anywhere, take esperanto for instance.

Re: Kiswahili Should Be The Official Language Of Africa by Nowenuse: 11:21pm On Mar 20, 2017

Talking about melaninated people, dont even bring in Southern Indians (dravidians), pacific islanders and people of non subsaharan African ancestry to the question, these people may be dark skinned but genetically they are not of the negroid race. We dont have a common identity nor culture nor genetics.

The various black african regions have to unite individually before we can think of total black african unity before we can think of bringing in subsaharan african descendants of the Americas (afro-latinos, afro-carribeans and afro-americans). Anything other than this is but wishful thinking.

Re: Kiswahili Should Be The Official Language Of Africa by Vickiweezy(m): 11:51pm On Mar 20, 2017

As English wey all man understand dey, una no like am abi?? undecided

Re: Kiswahili Should Be The Official Language Of Africa by DieDieDieOmenka: 11:59pm On Mar 20, 2017

mulattoclaro TonyeBarcanista in law cheesy

Re: Kiswahili Should Be The Official Language Of Africa by EnkayDezign: 1:29am On Mar 21, 2017

mulattoclaroo:
People of colour make up one third of the world's population and due to this factor the need to have a central language every African anywhere in the world can relate with is necessary. By the term "African" I am equally referring to Caribbeans (Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Dominican Republic, Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados etc), African Americans, Afro-Cubans, Afro-Brazilians, Afro-Argentines, Afro-Colombians, Afro-Costa Ricans, Afro-Venezuelans, Afro-Mexicans and every country in the Americas where there's an African population outside the continent of Africa.

Recently a lot of African Americans have been migrating to Ghana, Sierra Leone and other parts of Africa and they're also connecting more with their African identity. This to me is a step in the right direction because they are Africans who were displaced by the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and the Trans Saharan Slave Trade. Let's put aside the global separation amongst melanated people because at the end of the day we are all Africans. Let's equally reach out to the Dravidian people of India, Aboriginal Australians, Samoans, Papua New Guineas and every melanated person from the Pacifics as well.

I am half Nigerian and half German but I've long embraced my African spirit because Black people are the root of every civilization and from which every race evolved. Before the demise of great Pan Africanists like Mummar Gadaffi, Kwame Nkwurah, Patrice Lumumba, Thomas Sankara, Marcus Garvey and the Great emperor Hallie Selassie, they preached Pan Africanism and the need to embrace our African spirit. It's time to have an African Central Bank and also a unitary currency to put an end to modern day slavery and Neo-colonialism.

I respect your ideas, and I am indeed a fervent supporter of Pan-Africanism, but I'm afraid "Modern day slavery" & "Neo-colonialism" won't cease as long as these two exist and are being practiced to extremes by Africans ; Islam and Christianity.

Re: Kiswahili Should Be The Official Language Of Africa by EmeeNaka: 4:17am On Mar 21, 2017

Nowenuse:
Talking about melaninated people, dont even bring in Southern Indians (dravidians), pacific islanders and people of non subsaharan African ancestry to the question, these people may be dark skinned but genetically they are not of the negroid race. We dont have a common identity nor culture nor genetics.

The various black african regions have to unite individually before we can think of total black african unity before we can think of bringing in subsaharan african descendants of the Americas (afro-latinos, afro-carribeans and afro-americans). Anything other than this is but wishful thinking.

Africa to unite? That's funny. Religion will never allow that.

Re: Kiswahili Should Be The Official Language Of Africa by escapefromusa(f): 7:02am On Mar 21, 2017

mulattoclaroo:
People of colour make up one third of the world's population and due to this factor the need to have a central language every African anywhere in the world can relate with is necessary. By the term "African" I am equally referring to Caribbeans (Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Dominican Republic, Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados etc), African Americans, Afro-Cubans, Afro-Brazilians, Afro-Argentines, Afro-Colombians, Afro-Costa Ricans, Afro-Venezuelans, Afro-Mexicans and every country in the Americas where there's an African population outside the continent of Africa.

Recently a lot of African Americans have been migrating to Ghana, Sierra Leone and other parts of Africa and they're also connecting more with their African identity. This to me is a step in the right direction because they are Africans who were displaced by the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and the Trans Saharan Slave Trade. Let's put aside the global separation amongst melanated people because at the end of the day we are all Africans. Let's equally reach out to the Dravidian people of India, Aboriginal Australians, Samoans, Papua New Guineas and every melanated person from the Pacifics as well.

I am half Nigerian and half German but I've long embraced my African spirit because Black people are the root of every civilization and from which every race evolved. Before the demise of great Pan Africanists like Mummar Gadaffi, Kwame Nkwurah, Patrice Lumumba, Thomas Sankara, Marcus Garvey and the Great emperor Hallie Selassie, they preached Pan Africanism and the need to embrace our African spirit. It's time to have an African Central Bank and also a unitary currency to put an end to modern day slavery and Neo-colonialism.

Re: Kiswahili Should Be The Official Language Of Africa by Caseless: 7:53am On Mar 21, 2017

Die it!

Re: Kiswahili Should Be The Official Language Of Africa by Nowenuse: 10:39pm On Mar 22, 2017

EmeeNaka:
Africa to unite? That's funny. Religion will never allow that.

Apart from the hausa fulanis of core-northern Nigeria, most west African muslims are not religious fanatics, they are liberal muslims just like yoruba muslims.

I really dont care about North Africans because they are Arabs. Horn Africans can go along with North African arabs if they wish, cos many of them do not believe they are black.
We subsharan Africans can form unity with our race as a uniting factor.
Muslims in Central, Southern and Eastern Africa (not including Horn Africans) are quite few and are not an issue at all.
So, yes, total black African unity is possible, religion nonetheless, as long as Horn Africans may not be included.

Re: Kiswahili Should Be The Official Language Of Africa by stubornnn: 2:18am On Mar 23, 2017

mulattoclaroo:
People of colour make up one third of the world's population and due to this factor the need to have a central language every African anywhere in the world can relate with is necessary. By the term "African" I am equally referring to Caribbeans (Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Dominican Republic, Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados etc), African Americans, Afro-Cubans, Afro-Brazilians, Afro-Argentines, Afro-Colombians, Afro-Costa Ricans, Afro-Venezuelans, Afro-Mexicans and every country in the Americas where there's an African population outside the continent of Africa.

Recently a lot of African Americans have been migrating to Ghana, Sierra Leone and other parts of Africa and they're also connecting more with their African identity. This to me is a step in the right direction because they are Africans who were displaced by the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and the Trans Saharan Slave Trade. Let's put aside the global separation amongst melanated people because at the end of the day we are all Africans. Let's equally reach out to the Dravidian people of India, Aboriginal Australians, Samoans, Papua New Guineas and every melanated person from the Pacifics as well.

I am half Nigerian and half German but I've long embraced my African spirit because Black people are the root of every civilization and from which every race evolved. Before the demise of great Pan Africanists like Mummar Gadaffi, Kwame Nkwurah, Patrice Lumumba, Thomas Sankara, Marcus Garvey and the Great emperor Hallie Selassie, they preached Pan Africanism and the need to embrace our African spirit. It's time to have an African Central Bank and also a unitary currency to put an end to modern day slavery and Neo-colonialism.

Yoruba is spoken in benin republic, togo and more than half the population of Nigeria speaks Yoruba when you consider Lagos.

Apart from this, it is spoken in a number of south american countries and some parts of Jamaica. In fact, Yoruba is the most popular african language in Uk.

Why not Yoruba huh

Re: Kiswahili Should Be The Official Language Of Africa by orisa37: 4:14am On Mar 23, 2017

Let's have Fulani language, so Herdsmen can move freely to capture those Xenophobic Racists in South Africa.

Re: Kiswahili Should Be The Official Language Of Africa by 9jakool: 5:21am On Mar 23, 2017

mulattoclaroo:
People of colour make up one third of the world's population and due to this factor the need to have a central language every African anywhere in the world can relate with is necessary. By the term "African" I am equally referring to Caribbeans (Haiti, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Dominican Republic, Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados etc), African Americans, Afro-Cubans, Afro-Brazilians, Afro-Argentines, Afro-Colombians, Afro-Costa Ricans, Afro-Venezuelans, Afro-Mexicans and every country in the Americas where there's an African population outside the continent of Africa.

Recently a lot of African Americans have been migrating to Ghana, Sierra Leone and other parts of Africa and they're also connecting more with their African identity. This to me is a step in the right direction because they are Africans who were displaced by the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade and the Trans Saharan Slave Trade. Let's put aside the global separation amongst melanated people because at the end of the day we are all Africans. Let's equally reach out to the Dravidian people of India, Aboriginal Australians, Samoans, Papua New Guineas and every melanated person from the Pacifics as well.

I am half Nigerian and half German but I've long embraced my African spirit because Black people are the root of every civilization and from which every race evolved. Before the demise of great Pan Africanists like Mummar Gadaffi, Kwame Nkwurah, Patrice Lumumba, Thomas Sankara, Marcus Garvey and the Great emperor Hallie Selassie, they preached Pan Africanism and the need to embrace our African spirit. It's time to have an African Central Bank and also a unitary currency to put an end to modern day slavery and Neo-colonialism.

I'm not against the idea of Pan-Africanism, but when you are speaking of Africa, skin colour is not that relevant in determining identity. I understand that in the Western world, everything boils down to skin colour and race due to the historical context. However, our differences and identity comes down to our history, culture, language, and belief systems and not a vain attribute such as skin color. The beauty of Africa is that we have over 2,000 ethno-linguistic groups, which is more than any other continent. Unfortunately, the Europeans didn't understand this and drew boarders that divided people of the same ethnicity, and merge political rivals together completing disregarding the history and the individuality. This is why many wars in Africa are fought on ethnic lines. I believe in a Pan-Africanism that promotes unity, but also the one that supports each other's individual entity. Branding Swahili as the official language of Africa not only ignore this notion, it also plays into the Western generalizing narrative. When they think of Africa, the often have a certain narrative, usually of something that they see on the media. Culturally speaking, many of them think we are wild/unclad, live among wild animals, and we all speak Swahili. We can't say we believe in Pan-Africanism at the same time disregard our individuality (which is what the West has been doing ever since). Swahili is already the lingua franca of some countries in East Africa, which is understandable due to natural factors like trade and history. If we play the race game in Africa and united simply because of a vain attribute such as the skin colour a human being, then we have submitted to the western narrative. We can't have Pan-Africanism unless we recognize our individuality first.
So I would like to ask this question, what makes Swahili the "Official African language" compare to Wolof, Igbo, Oromo, Kikuyu, Shona, Tamazight, Yoruba, Hausa, Fulani, Kikongo, Kanuri, Zulu and others?

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