DRC: learning Swahili at school is accelerating

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Initiatives promoting the learning of Swahili are multiplying in eastern DRC.

© CC0 Pixabay / Gerd Altmann

By: William Basimike

4 min

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the learning of national languages ​​is gradually becoming a reality.

A program was drawn up in this direction in 2009, but it has never been implemented.

For two years, things have been changing.

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Lingala is spoken in the north of the country and in the capital Kinshasa, Tshiluba in the central and southwestern provinces, Kikongo in the west, are now appearing in schools.

In the East, it is Swahili, spoken by around 40% of all Congolese, which is entering the classroom.

In Bukavu, language learning is accelerating.

Report from the Espoir 2 school complex, a secondary school in the capital of South Kivu province.

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