The International Mother Tongue Day that was celebrated on 21st February 2013 as it has been each year is a big day for languages worldwide and the yesterday event was chosen by Kamusi Project to ...

Today, Rwanda is a melting pot of official languages. Although more than 99% of Rwandans speak Kinyarwanda – a Bantu language and the country’s mother tongue – Rwanda has three other official ...

Editor’s note: This personal essay was written following a Twitter campaign organized by Global Voices sub-Saharan Africa and Rising Voices where each week, a different language activist shared their ...

Growing up in a multilingual family, I was mostly exposed to Kinyarwanda, Swahili and French. At home, we tended to mix both Kinyarwanda and French. Swahili was also used during conversations with ...

Kigali — Recently, I overheard a heated discussion between a German University Professor (visiting National University of Rwanda) and a Rwandan Engineer on the Language Issue in Rwandan Schools and in ...

They are Hausa, Portuguese for Africa, Somali, Kinyarwanda and Kirundi. All these language guides draw on the rich experience and expertise of BBC journalists built up over many years. The BBC is ...