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We need more research in Africa conducted and published by Africans, why don't you approach ipsos synnovate or a statistics university department and ask them to conduct a survey to accept/reject your null hypothesis? Questions like yours lead people to start companies or write books or make...

kiNYakyusa, I don't see that coming, Swahili trumps any other african language in terms of vocabulary of expression, so policy makers would obviously prefer it over other african languages.

sam999 Hiyo inaitwa Jabavu Hass towers will be composed of two towers one 212m and the other 137m

That Britam building is taking forever, they should actually be installing the electricity, plumbing and windows of the lower levels while they finish up the upper levels. This mhindi fellow Samir Dave is really daring, hata kama ni kulipwa I wouldn't try what he does at the top of these buildings.

I thought kila mtu alikuwa anajua Mash Auto, kuna mhindi fulani ana own hiyo garage westlands, basically if you want to pimp your ride, Mash Auto is the place to go, all the matatus and Nganyas in Nairobi are pimped here. And not just Nissan Sunnies, zile Range Rover sport limousine za Sonko pia...

This is great for the guy but not really news, if Kenyans want to do business, they have to get more informed, this stuff has been happening at the muhindi's Mash Auto garage for a long time, don't know why people can't take advantage of well known services to make more money.

Also they did choose to retain the languages, whether it was to be exploited or not is not the point. I can give you a multitude of languages that were less developed or at par with Swahili back then during colonialism and now they are doing better, why? because the regimes chose to develop them...

Iconoclastes You are taking the word exploitation too literally here, it doesn't necessarily mean something bad, it may mean lost opportunity to develop but not always something bad. For example, in Kenya virtually all the university books used to teach are foreign, that's economic and academic...

Iconoclastes It isn't slavery of the mind to speak in English, rather, it is slavery of the mind to prefer to speak in English rather than your own language when need arises. That's what I meant. You become essentially tethered to a state of mind that benefits somebody else's interests at the...

Oh yes speaking English in place of our own language is exploitation, it is contributing to the vast English empire, we buy their products, we contribute to their research, we provide a market for their economy all at the expense of our own economies. You may call that capitalism, but capitalism...

MK254 Yeah Kenya's strength is due to its diversity unlike TZ's which is its nationalism, that is my identity, I celebrate it, I don't deny it, but I also think that we can do better. On more impacting and important issues that pertain to development, using Swahili more will definitely change...

Iconoclastes Ok, I understand you but my point was that it will only take government intervention to change this, I love that we have such a language that unites us, I just don't like how we treat it and the attitude of most Kenyans towards the language, I guess I'm more optimistic than most...

Achana na Nairobi, it is still read, especially mashinani, you might not have traveled that much around rural Kenya to see it, there are also many other newspapers, but yes DN and Standard are still popular for obvious reasons. I did not say it was lucrative i said that it is read, lucrative in...

I didn't say all Kenyans i said most of the Kenyans, those who have gone to school that is, and they comprise more than 88% according to recent statistics. Taifa Leo is popular, don't know why there aren't more swahili newspapers, there are other Swahili publications especially sports, like...

Iconoclastes I don't think the number of people who speak the broken version is important, what is important is that they are able to speak it, and that not even English enjoys the number of people who speak and understand the language. To make it at the level where TZ is will not be easy, but...

Mimi huskiza miziki yote huwa sibagui, hata beats za ohangla, mziki wa wajaluo hubamba sana, ndio maana nashauri hawa wakenya wenzangu umuhimu wa lugha ya kiswahili, hasa kwa wanamuziki wanaoenzi kuskizwa na umati mkubwa zaidi afrika mashariki. Huwezi linganisha kiswahili fasaha na sheng', kwa...

pingli-nywee na Iconoclastes I am gonna go against the tide here and maybe you may not like my comments but I disagree, you cannot compare Kiswahili Sanifu with sheng'. I understand the importance of the two, I am a Nairobian, but sheng's utility ends there, Swahili is a regional language...

Overtaking speed is not the issue, but overtaking while on a climbing lane or when approaching a bend when hata huoni mbele, that's a no-no even for the most experienced drivers.

Na waliwanga na attitude gani na sheng'? Mliwanga mnabishana juu ya?

Mwambie afike Nai tumpeleke kwanza the school of hard knocks, sheng' lugha ya mtaa, lazima azuru jiji kwanza