BISA leads the way in Swahili Learning!
5th May 2022
The Swahili department continue to be busy!
After signing our Memorandum of Understanding with MS-TCDC for this academic year, and the highly successful Primary exams last term, it’s time for the Secondary students in Year 7 and 8 to sit their Swahili exams on the 16th and 17th of May.
BISA continues to lead the way in keeping up to date with the importance of the Swahili language in and out of the country. With its origin in East Africa, Swahili speakers spread over more than 14 countries: Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), South Sudan, Somalia, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, Comoros, and as far as Oman and Yemen in the Middle East! The Embassy of Tanzania in France, in partnership with the Association of the Tanzanian Diaspora Living in France, has also introduced a programme to teach Kiswahili as a way of promoting the language overseas.
Throughout the year our students have studied the language both in and outside the class and are now ready to demonstrate their skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing from simplest to complex levels.
Kiswahili has already been accepted as official language in SADC, the African Union (AU) and the East African Community (EAC).
Kiswahili is also among the working languages of the East African Parliament, one of the important decision-making organs of the EAC, whose members are Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi and South Sudan.
What better way to prepare for the world of tomorrow than to become proficient in this language and gain this wonderful qualification? Go for it, Year 7 and 8!
