{"id":24902,"date":"2021-07-07T20:59:55","date_gmt":"2021-07-07T17:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=24902"},"modified":"2021-07-07T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T18:00:00","slug":"museveni-swahili-can-unite-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/07\/museveni-swahili-can-unite-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Museveni: Swahili Can Unite Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Uganda&#8217;s President Yoweri Museveni has called on Africans to speak Swahili to aid in unifying the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a speech on African Integration Day, which marks progress in bringing the continent together, Museveni described Swahili as a &#8220;neutral language to unite us, it is non-ethnic, belongs to nobody&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During the speech he lamented that Africans were not more unified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It is easier for Africans to unite than the Europeans, but we are not taking that direction surprisingly,&#8221; he said in a tweet summarising his comments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As a non-European language, Swahili has often been spoken about as an alternative to English, French or Portuguese as a means for cross-continental communication. But the idea has been slow to become reality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda&#8217;s President Yoweri Museveni has called on Africans to speak Swahili to aid in unifying the continent. In a speech on African Integration Day, which marks progress in bringing the continent together, Museveni described Swahili as a &#8220;neutral language to unite us, it is non-ethnic, belongs to nobody&#8221;. During the speech he lamented that Africans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":24903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-24902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24904,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24902\/revisions\/24904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}