President Magufuli praised for promoting Kiswahili

Authorities in the Ministry of Information, Tourism, Culture and Sports have commended the Union President, Dr John Magufuli, for promoting Kiswahili within the country and abroad. 

The praise were made by the Ministry’s Deputy Minister, Ms Choum Kombo Khamis, when responding to questions from backbenchers who wanted to know if there were any efforts of promoting the language. “We have been doing well, so far.

Our leaders President Ali Mohamed Shein and Dr Magufuli are committed. In all his visits abroad, including AU meeting in Ethiopia, Dr Magufuli addressed the audience in Kiswahili,” Ms Khamis said.

She also said both Kiswahili Councils in Zanzibar and mainland have been doing a good job, and that even some members of the Tanzania Diasporas should be commended for teaching Kiswahili abroad.

She said all people including artists and journalists have a great role to promote Kiswahili to make it among strong official languages in the world, as discussions continues to make it a teaching language in higher learning institutions.

“Both Kiswahili and English are our official languages, but the former will be stronger if we use it widely and promote it,” the deputy minister said.