Stanley Baldwin, the United Kingdom's Prime Minister in 1924, while addressing the congress that same year, emphasised that the preservation of the individuality of the mother tongue is essential to ...

Millions of Rwandans and other Kinyarwanda speakers have struggled to understand why changes were recently introduced in the language's orthography. The new instructions on how to write Kinyarwanda ...

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Using English as the language of instruction in schools automatically makes a child bilingual. School is important, and so is English, which is why most schools use the language. It is a language that ...

The Minister of National Unity and Civic Engagement, Jean Damascène Bizimana, has called on parents to ensure their children “learn and properly use Kinyarwanda,” at home, saying that “the national ...

Those Rwandans who went to school in the 80s, even if they only knew Kinyarwanda, unwittingly also learned quite a mouthful of French along the way. Gardienne, maîetresse, directrice, crayons, taxi, ...

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 ...

The deliberately paced, quietly immersive “Kinyarwanda” tells a tangle of stories set in and around 1994’s Rwandan genocide, a roughly 100-day nightmare that pit that country’s Hutu majority against ...