In the first place teaching children in the local language is not new in Uganda. It existed before independence in almost all the primary schools of the day. The difference is that while this time ...

With widespread reports of irregularities and abuse of the travel document in foreign countries, the Immigration department has tightened the procedure of interviewing people intending to access ...

Here’s a look at nine countries across Africa, Asia and the Pacific where English is the language of power, policy and everyday life. A country built by freed African-American slaves, Liberia was ...

Analysis - There are 41 living languages in Uganda. But only three are ever mentioned in debates about the East African nation's official language: Luganda, Swahili and English.

My suggestion is to let all the languages spoken in Uganda automatically qualify to national languages. I would like to praise President Museveni for making sure he recognises each language in his ...

Despite the fact that the African languages in Rwanda and Uganda are marginalized in most formal domains in society, they are used far more extensively than commonly believed. This is one ...

In Uganda, private schools are simply ignoring a policy that calls for pupils to learn in a mother tongue rather than in English for the first three years of their education.

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I had to learn the most common cardinal legal terminologies in the different languages and for some of the vital cases that needed someone who understood the language, I referred to my supervisors or ...

Using language users in professional positions sometimes makes me think that Uganda probably embarked on the Kiswahili journey before time.

Uganda’s English language policy is at odds with the situation on the ground in the country’s rural schools.