Creatives urged to embrace Swahili language for regional careers

Ugandan creatives have been implored to utilise the four days a week opportunity to learn Swahili language in classes being conducted at the Uganda National Cultural Centre (UNCC) to boost their career opportunities beyond Uganda. There are two classes every evening of Wednesdays and Thursdays and rest of the classes are conducted on weekends.

Swahili language, also known by its local name as Kiswahili, once an Island dialect of the African Bantu tongue, has been spoken for centuries especially by the East African Coastal communities in Tanzania, Kenya and Zanzibar. Kiswahili is…