Africa-Press – Mozambique. Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan has asked Mozambican leader Filipe Nyusi to take up Kiswahili as one among medium of instruction languages in the country’s education system.
Speaking at a televised session of the 12th congress of the neighbouring country’s ruling party, the Front for the Liberation of Mozambique (Frelimo) she said the language can be used as a medium especially at primary school level, as its use can help unify people and promote peace.
The congress was being held in Matola suburb of the capital province of Maputo province, where the visiting Tanzanian leader said that relations between Tanzania and Mozambique are deep rooted, arising from early commitment of their national leaders.
Founder president Julius Nyerere invited fighters from various unliberated countries to set up camps to coordinate the armed struggle, which helped to ensure that Mozambique gains its independence, she stated.
The facilities included broadcasting where six liberation parties for various southern African countries aired mobilisation programmes to their respective countries and exiled communities, the elaborated
“This history should be taught to Tanzania and Mozambican youth and the only medium of instruction that will make this a reality is Kiswahili,” she further stated.
Reasons that made the language essential in the liberation of southern African was effective use of Kiswahili as lingua franca in training programmes during the armed struggle, she specified.
The founding president Nyerere energetically promoted Kiswahili as the most important non-tribal language in East Africa and among non-tribal lingua franca in Africa, she said.
She told the congress that Kiswahili can be used as a tool to unite Africans because fighters used the language they communicated among themselves to discard tribal affinities during the struggle for freedom.
“Kiswahili can also unite the people of Mozambique. Recognizing Kiswahili as the language of development in southern Africa, UNESCO declared 7-7 each year as Kiswahili day in the world.”
She pointedly asked President Nyusi and members of the party to see how to make decisions to incorporate Kiswahili in the Mozambican education system, while congratulating Mozambique and its ruling party for the strides it has registered to take development to the people.
Mozambican youth can come to Tanzania and learn at the Mwalimu Nyerere University College on development issues, she said. Mozambique and Frelimo must rest assured that Tanzania and its ruling party, are bent on cultivating deeper cooperation with Mozambique to speed up development in the two countries, she added,
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