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Misah |
#1 NO knowledge of our Indegenous Languages, no real creativity, innovation, new inventions,& devt2012-11-02 16:09Our local languages are our heritage, identity and a true reflection of our culture.There is no developed nation we see today that didn't use its local language(indegenous)in all its inventions and innovation in order for it to become a first of highly developed nation., look at china, Norway, S.Africa, nearly all of them. So, we need to keep on thinking through our Langauges, as we grab concepts from second languages like English, and in order to think through our languages we need to learn them. |
milly |
#2 include indigenous languages in the curriculum2012-11-03 10:40what is culture without a language. And since education is the future of this country, we should include our native languages in the carriculam. |
Say No to Extinction of Local Languages in the Digital Age |
#3 a cause that all foresighted Ugandans should endorse...to avoid the threat of extinction2012-11-03 15:36This a cause that all foresighted Ugandans should endorse...as our local languages a facing a threat of extinction. In a world run by the 'survival for the fittest' jungle law...Africans should not merely become spectators in their own fate, but active participants in their struggle for cultural, language, economic, political and social independence...!!! |
How can we claim to be free&independent when weDONOT Eloquently SPEAK/WRITE in our NATIVE TONGUES?!? |
#4 How can we claim to be free&independent when weDONOT Eloquently SPEAK/WRITE in our NATIVE TONGUES?!?2012-11-03 21:31Every true African at heart must see to it that they prevent their local indigenous (and very rich languages at that), from extinction!!! |
JKM, IIAS, University of Ghana, Legon |
#5 Many indigenous languages are endangered, don't wipe away the few which are on the curriculum2012-11-04 04:30Let the government (Ministry of Education and Sports) think twice. The language teachers in Uganda have persisted and endured despite the many challenges (inadequate supply of textbooks, resources, failure to be put on the government payroll etc). 'If we despise the language of a people then by that very token we despise that people. If we are ashamed of our own language then we must certainly lack that minimum of self-respect which is necessary for the healthy functioning of society'- Armstrong, R.G. (1963). |
Ebila, Makerere University, Kampala- Uganda |
#62012-11-04 10:36The move to scrap off the teaching of local languages in Ugandan schools is shortsighted and embarrassing to say the least. Uganda is the only country in the East African Region that has two 'non indigenous' languages as the national language- i.e Swahili and English. While it is good to embrace modernity, read abandoning our traditions and languages, I think it is suicidal for us to neglect and not fight for the promotion of indigenous languages alongside the Western and other African languages that are considered to be regional languages like Kiswahili. Local languages should be taught and promoted because that is the root of our culture and the means of our expression. |
Musoga |
#7 My language is my all2012-11-04 18:09My language is my hope mu future my only own. Refusing me and my children from learning my language up to higher levels of education means that I am not important. I am determined to make myself relevant and important in the world by making my language speak for me alongside other languages of the world. |
Drew |
#8 Maintain local languages2012-11-04 19:33Why do we have to underscore our ethinicity? We can not afford to lose our cultures, language education is one such way we maintain them!!!!! |
knchris |
#9 maintain the languages2012-11-05 08:00what is the culture without is language that is insane kids need to know their language, understand it ... |
Sserubanjwa |
#102012-11-05 08:27The identity of any culture is in its language. Those who don't want our languages to be taught to the youth are trying to suffocate our cultures. They are fully aware that people are brought together under culture than any thing else. This belief of divide and rule is unacceptable. |
Ama |
#112012-11-05 10:32Does it make sense for someone to love his or her neighbor's child because his/hers is incapacitated? This is what our people who designed the new curriculum seem to be doing. |
ko |
#132012-11-05 19:34I am learning Lusoga and I love it. Why should learn other languages without learning my own/ |
Babaluku |
#14 Re: NO knowledge of our Indegenous Languages, no real creativity, innovation, new inventions,& devt2012-11-06 10:00“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” ― Nelson Mandela The conditioning of our minds to assimilate, emulate and glorify that which degrades and see;s no value in our own culture tradition and heritage must be put to an end in Uganda period. This post colonial syndrome that the government is not ashamed to even debate must be fully diagnosed and acknowledged as a mental disorder that has dis empowered both the old and the the new generation, by uprooting their genuine truth and spirit of expression from their hearts to adopt to the submissive ideologies of this so called english culture which so many ugandans even those who have never step foot in Great Britain claim as their first language. We must educate and teach our children the truth of our land these indigenous languages are a apart of who we are and the spirit within them carry the truth which our ancestors spoke with, to see those in power debating or even plot to put an end to this indigenous wisdom in institutions definitely sums up why the majority of Ugandans especially upper class and middle class are confortable with raising kids in Uganda who pride them selves of not speaking any indigenous languages because of the colonial conditioning of their parents and their desire to fit in the so claimed prestigious class of the elites. Whats is so elite about educated fools who have no self pride and lack the communicating capacity to understand their own community. this foolishness must not be tolerated by any Ugandan - each tribe and all people desrver true liberating education designed to empower them to fully represent their land and their people with the encouragement to particpate in dertemining their destiny. This imposing foreign ideologies and using institution to validate them is a false and unacceptable approach. All Ugandans must awaken and claim their right to exercise, practice and preserve their indigenous expressions, and make sure that we demand all institution to acknowledge the importance and power in our demand, so that we can fully restore and reconnect our youth to this powerful uniqueness that is usually traded for no value due to the standards set by the colonial education that hasn't change for the past 50 year. - You can't love or have any self pride for you self you community or your nation if you have been conditioned to hate and not love your own language. No man or woman who knows him or her self can be a slave - but we have seen Uganda breed a slaving generation due to the western assimilation promotion by all institutions for these 50yrs of it's indipendence. This is a time in uganda's history for the awakening of it true sons and daughters. The desire and spiritual awakening to reconnect to our true sense of self - worth as we progress forward. Thank you to every one supporting this petition, and i want to thank those who have created the platform to bring the awareness and inspire us to act....Ugandans Wake UP!!!! . ....
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Odai |
#152012-11-07 07:02This is a worthwhile effort to maintain our different identities and the values so uniquely communicated by our languages. The ancestors' spirits are behind you. |
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