Medadi Ssentanda is affiliated with Makerere University, Department of African Languages and Stellenbosch University, Department of General Linguistics. Judith Nakayiza works at the Department of ...

As I contemplated writing something about the recent conference on Kiswahili in Uganda that was held at Kololo Independence Grounds, a scientist from Makerere University posted a proposal on Uganda’s ...

Late last year, government declared the teaching of Swahili in all primary schools compulsory. The directive is in sync with the East African regional integration. Save for Uganda, Swahili is either a ...

Lawrence Alado is a JURIST Staff Correspondent in Uganda. This is one in a seasonal series of columns by JURIST law student staff and correspondents discussing their summer work in support of justice, ...

Uganda's language policy requires that rural schools should choose a dominant local language to use as the language of learning and teaching for the first three years of primary school while English ...

Uganda’s Constitution is clear. Article 28(3)(f) states that anyone facing trial who does not understand the language being used must be given an interpreter free of charge. The goal is fairness: no ...

A little over a year ago, Ugandan blogger Country Boyi wondered why Ugandans weren't blogging in local languages. He wrote: The power of indigenous languages to infiltrate the thinking of the local ...

Uganda is widely praised as one of the world’s most welcoming refugee hosts, opening its borders to families fleeing war and instability in South Sudan, DR Congo, Somalia, Burundi and beyond. But ...

GAA HAS taken hold in Uganda – with gaelic games-related terminology now added to the Ugandan Sign Language (USL) dictionary. Deaf students from Walukuba West Primary School in Jinja, eastern Uganda, ...

Medadi Ssentanda received funding from Makerere University Directorate of Research and Graduate Training under the Nurturing Emerging Research Leaders Project (NERLP) to conduct research on the ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Uganda's languagepolicyrequires that rural schools should choose a dominant local language to use as the language of learning and teaching for the first three years of ...