Is Swahili Africa's Secret Weapon?

The most spoken and widely studied indigenous African language. Swahili's rise, development and spread also makes it the only African language in African union and has over 150 million speakers, it is the national and official language of Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and more recently Rwanda.

With global corporations starting to pay attention to Swahili’s rise as a lingua franca in most of east and parts of central Africa, the language of Swahili may soon become the first African language spoken across the continent.

The latest sign of Swahili’s rise is recently, 16 southern African countries agreed to adopt Swahili as a formal language in their region, providing impetus for wider spread of one of the few shared African languages, that is not colonial.

[StroriesFromAfrica]

Yees RISE AFRICA. Am supporting the movement by sharing simple lessons of our local African languages and their similarities over in my space. We need to pride in and champion for our continent. Thank you for sharing.

[MrSuperbold]

I am Afro american. I am starting to learn Swahili. Diamond platum got me interested in the language. It's a beautiful language and it represents me as being African.

[demondburgess]

Kiswahili Kitukuzwe, Me and my family, learning, watching, and promoting from Wisconsin, USA!

[bantuboxingworld]

Kiswahili kitukuzwe, shout out from South Africa🇿🇦

[hailudarcho]

Ethiopian born but currently in America, I support this because if we Africans speak one language than I believe that we will be unstoppable and highly successful in everything we do. We will rise this way. 🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹❤️

[izisilva]

KISWAHILI KITUKUZWE

Brazilian here, studying Swahili also.
It's gonna be our black lingua franca ❤

[manungda]

Much respect to all Tanzanians, Tanzania was Colonized by Germany and British but this guys they didn't keep any of these Languages. Kiswahili Kitukuzwe

[dr.deannaellis-chopin]

Nakipenda Kiswahili! Twakipenda Kiswahili! Dr. Chopin here in Southwest Michigan U.S.A., teaching my brothers and sisters Kiswahili everyday...on the real😍

[leonarddacosta]

Here in the UK I’ve been attempting to learn Kiswahili. Adding to my knowledge little by little. Let’s make it happen people.

[mishapurser]

White British person here. I would love to see Swahili become a pan-African diplomatic language to build a strong and independent Africa and I'd love to see an African language replace European languages for this purpose.

[tnk]

Swahili is the culture
Kiswahili is the language

[diasporavoice]

I am from west Africa but yes I agree to Kiswahili.
I’ll have to pick up my old Kiswahili notes and start my refresher

[marshat]

I love the language and I'm learning it as my goal for 2021.

[wardachrouaa]

Here in Belgium Kiswahili is also offered at university. I already studied Arabic there, now I would love to learn Swahili. Language of the future!

[KulwinderSingh-zowy]

Kiswahili is one of sweetest language in the world.
It is easiest language to learn Swahili because there are many words which are familiar with other languages the credit goes to Mwalimu J.K.Nyerere of Tanzania.

[hasanitto]

Indeed and its so easy to learn and also in Music its one of the most beautiful language to be heard👂🏽

[nonodaviv]

Ninatoka Marekani na mama yangu anatoka Tanzania 🇹🇿! I’m learning Swahili so I can talk to my family.

[sulandelemere]

Great! Africa needs its own language and hopefully one day its own writing system. This video has convinced me to learn Swahili.

[mrcead]

My children's cartoons will have Swahili and Xhosa versions for any African children to learn how to speak these languages

[salim_Mt]

Kiswahili kitukuzwe ❤ & rip to Prof Ken Walibora, many of us can speak swahili because of him 💫