One person argued that Gujarati would have been a better language to choose given Zambia’s Indian population: “And you say the Chinese aren’t taking over? Why can’t they learn English? Why Chinese why haven’t they considered Gujarati because I believe more people speak Gujarati than Chinese in Zambia.”
Meanwhile, their petrol sells for 13.75 Kwacha, about KSh 110.
That Chinese story was a translation of another story in the same paper about Chinese-Africa relations. And its intended target was of course the Chinese. The rest of the paper is in English, which of course is also a colonizer’s language.
There was talk of billboards and other adverts in kichinku in Nairobi. Are they not targeted at the chinku population in Nairobi right? It must be big enough to warrant such…
That should tell us something…
Most newspaper readers in both Kenya and Zambia can understand English.In fact I believe that more than half of this country can read English.
The number of Chinese speakers in both nations does not exceed 0.01% of the population.
Doesn’t change a thing in my statement. The Kenyan Government is not governed by The Church, never has, never will. And how is a school teaching mandarin (chinese who?) a path to colonialism? Actually, there are schools in Kenya teaching Mandarin, and German, and French, and all manner of languages of the world. Does that mean anything? Yes, those kids get to learn a host of languages…
can accept that colonisation was better than independence.