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AU adoption of Kiswahili as an official working language good for Integration

A meeting is in progress at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. [Courtesy]

When on July 7, 1954, the Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) was founded in Dar es Salaam under the leadership of Mwalimu Julius Nyerere, it immediately declared the Kiswahili language as an important weapon in the Africa’s struggle for liberation from colonialism.

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