Kampala — As Parliament starts debating the White Paper, one other proposal, beyond the one on presidential term limits, is likely to excite much debate and emotion. It's the proposal on national ...

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 ...

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 ...

Language in Uganda is being revamped to remove inconsistencies and add rules. One way in which language experts are deploying these changes is through the country's first local-language spelling bee.

(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 ...

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 ...

Persons with hearing impairments are urging the Government of Uganda, through the Ministry of Gender, Labour, and Social Development, to establish a comprehensive Ugandan Sign Language Law. Robert ...

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, ...

Ugandans have praised Orange Uganda’s move to deliver a phone operating system that accommodates Luganda. The new phone system will be available to users with all the amenities, the telecom operator ...