iaoish said:
And when do you think this is going to happen? I've read that the only country in Africa with Swahilli as their official language is Tanzania and that a lot of other countries in Africa want to maintain French and English as official language
They are colonizer languages. You are not saying anything right now.
And maybe if you would stop this "reading" bullshit, and go do some RESEARCH instead, you would realize that Swahili is national or official in Kenya, Rwanda, DR Congo and is spoken in many more than that. That is not just an isolated circumstance--that is a
powerful movement.
This matter of mode of expression arises more generally in Africa over the question of national language. There is an overwhelming desire to have a national tongue native to the land, but the practicalities appear to be insuperable. While Tanzania has established Swahili as her official language, others have been obliged to settle for French or English, in order that their people may communicate with one another and all with the world beyond. In fact, this may be a most appropriate development since the search for an African identity is made precisely so that Africa can knit herself more tightly into the world community. When the Nigerian playwright, Wole Soyinka, says he wants to be a good writer, not a good African writer, he is expressing what is in the mind of every African. For Africa has indeed become part of the modem world. Source (on page2)
This is all garbage to me. This man passed decades ago, LONG before Swahili experienced what it is experiencing right now.
Things like these are what matter, things that are happening RIGHT NOW:
http://www.inst.at/trans/11Nr/ogwana11.htm
"The future of Swahili is a question of speculation. The Great Lakes region is still very unstable politically, just as it was in the early sixties. This situation is likely to continue for the next 20 or 30 years. Millions of people will continue to be displaced and
this will simply render Swahili more and more indispensable for the survival of the people. But due to the globalization and the already international status of French and English, Swahili will still be a second language among the elite, whose minds are directed towards Washington, London and Paris.
The common man will use Swahili more and more, while the rulers will still use English and French.
I can see the gradual weakening of the local languages and the gradual growth of Swahili to replace them but not yet to replace the former colonial languages. The end result is likely to be that of a systematic bilingualism of the type Swahili/English, Swahili/French, Swahili/Portuguese, etc."
Do you see me sitting here saying to REPLACE English and French? Fuck no. That would be pure ignorance. The point here is that, if you are going to consider learning a foreign language, Consider SWAHILI. If you are going to consider teaching a language, Consider SWAHILI. If you are a College President considering adding another foreign language to yuor college, Consider SWAHILI.
The demand WILL be created. That much is not open to argument. If i have to do it on my own without the help of Siccness sycophants and ass-kissers and tree-huggers--so the fuck what.
Like above. some countries rather speak English or French
Again...colonizer languages. You ain't saying nothing. This isn't about what is forced upon you; this is about finding a viable median language to learn. I have already explained to you that Niger-Congo is the largest Sub-Saharan Language family, and out of those, which has the largest amount of speakers. Not having the clicks and tones that are hard if not impossible for English speakers to learn..........Swahili is it.
You are sitting here speaking out against Blacks learning Swahili, and for fucks sake,
you don't even have a replacement. You are just sitting here hating on the whole idea. You sound like a double-agent to me, taking your orders from the top and being sent around to make sure Black people don't organize in any way, shape or form other than Rap Labels and Sports teams.
No rational man that truly loves Black people would say the things you are saying. I am not proposing some dumbfuck rinky-dink language with 10,000 speakers; I am talking about a language with 80 million people. I am talking about THE MOST WIDELY-SPOKEN AFRICAN LANGUAGE! And you're sitting here about to bug out because you know it might actually work and that you'll lose your secret-agent title.
This is just pure racism, and making the gap between black and white people even bigger. I am not saying that we are on the right track now but this is just dividing of people
Don't care. I really don't.
A man wearing a doo rag and baggy jeans walks up to an insurance salesman and says "Pardon me, sir. But do you happen to know what the time is?" -- You are a fucking liar if you say you would not laugh at this if you saw it in the flesh.
If Blacks cannot use Proper English without being called sell-outs and Carltons, then we are going to create our own H-variety that White people are not allowed to use without being ridiculed and labeled as wanna-bes. That is just the bottom line of the matter.
If you read up on history you see that europeans did manage to take away the language and culture of many africans and if something happen once it can happen again. And you will have to get millions of people motivated to learn it who live outside of Africa. I don't see that happening (not in my life time anyway)
Good for you and your lifetime. You are also a shitty arguer and you are not as e-cool as me.
My point here is, if you `know' one thing about me, know that it is that I don't fuck around. I don't come on here and pretend I love the shit out of Cars, and then hop offline and get someone else to do all my car work for me. I have plans and strategies for this Swahili shit, and pedestrian criticisms alone won't stop me.
A good initiative to raise your kids multi langua, but then again I don't think they will put Swahili to a good use unless you ship your kids to Tanzania
That is one way to look at it. The other way is that the Jews revived a completely DEAD Hebrew language, and they now use it on a regular basis to conduct EVERYTHING.
If they can REVIVE one and put it to work, then surely we can BORROW one and make it spectacular.
why is it only that black on black violance needs to stop? why not all violance? because the black race isn't the only race that is sometime violance against another black. white, latino, asian have the same problems. As long as we are being ruled over by the greedy goverments we will remain haveing these problems
Governments aren't the problem. All-or-Nothing, infiltrating, traitorous, lethargic, apathetic motherfuckers like YOU are the problem.
If you ain't Black, don't even worry about this topic. In fact, yous itting here not being black and trying to talk people OUT OF IT, is more racist and Anti-Black than just about anything. Black people are here talking about ending violence, and you're sitting here trying to broaden and therefore confuse the scope of the message?
VIOLENCE IS NOT GOING AWAY. EVER. NO 'PLAN' TO END WORLD VIOLENCE EXISTS, OR SHOULD EXIST, BECAUSE IT WILL INEVITABLY FAIL.
Now, if you are black, I feel sorry for you because that makes you even less Black than I am, and I am about as house negro as they come.
Wrong topic to aruge. Go talk about world peace and everyone holding hands in another thread.