USONGO WANGU NA KISWANGLISHI : WATANZANIA HATUJAKOMAA KILUGHA-2

Kusoma na kutukuza fasihi  ya Kiswahili Fasaha kupitia vitabu na sinema  ndiyo njia pekee itakayoendeleza na kuimarisha lugha yetu...

Wiki jana tuliangalia namna ambavyo Kiswahili kimekua, kikazoa na kuburuta misamiati  ya lugha za Kiarabu, Kiingereza, Kiajemi, Kireno, Kihindi nk. Hapo hapo kanuni zake za kisarufi (“grammar”) ni za Kibantu. Ina maana Kiswahili ni lugha ya Kiafrika, inayojitosheleza.

Kukua kwa “Kiswanglish” si jambo baya. Tatizo hili si geni barani Afrika.Wala si geni ndani ya baadhi lugha mbalimbali ulimwenguni. Waspanyola wakazi wa Marekani wameunda “Spanglish”- lugha ya mitaani inayotumiwa  na walowezi waliozaliwa kule walio baina ya utamaduni wa Kimarekani na Kilatina. Tofauti ni kwamba Walatina huwalea wanao kufuata mila zao. Si kama Waafrika wengi wanaokulia Majuu- hawasisitizi wanao huku Uzunguni kuzijua mila na lugha zao. Wanaona nishai na aibu... kwamba lazima wafanane na wenyeji.

Amina Waziri ...mjukuu wa Shaaban Robert ambaye ni mmoja wa waalimu wakubwa wa Kiswahili Ughaibuni akiongea nami mwaka 2008 kuhusu haja ya kutukuza kumbukumbu ya babu yake na kuendeleza lugha hii muhimu. Picha na F Macha

Wiki jana tuliangalia namna Kenya ilivyoanza lugha ya Shenge, miaka 20 iliyopita. Lugha hii ilichanua kutokana na baadhi ya Wakenya-hasa mjini Nairobi- ambao ni wazungumzaji wazuri wa Kiingereza kuwa dhaifu katika msamiati wa Kiswahili na kuamua kuchanganya changanya. Lakini haina maana walikua duni lugha ya Kiingereza. Sisi tunaingiza Kiingereza katika Kiswahili- lakini tunasutwa (hasa na majirani wetu wa Kenya na Uganda) tulivyo wabovu kwa Kiingereza. Kabla ya kuendelea – hebu tuangalie nchi nyingine ya Kiafrika zenye mtindo wa kupikicha pikicha lugha kama Kenya.

KISWAHILI PROFESSOR SAID AHMED MOHAMMED- UNSUNG MAESTRO OF EAST AFRICAN LITERATURE...

 I was watching a William Shakespeare TV documentary with a couple of secondary school students, recently. In the middle of the programme one asked if I had read Hamlet. I said, I had. Romeo and Juliet? Yes. Julius Caesar? Sure.

“Where did you read them?”

I said at Ilboru secondary school in the highlands of Arusha, Tanzania. I also acted in a Caesar play; I was Cassius and saw “Romeo and Juliet” film at the British Council in Dar es Salaam.Yes. William Shakespeare is known in Africa, I explained.

The youths thought Shakespeare is an archaic thing only forced unto them (to waste time) whereas the writing legend has been utilized for ages across the planet to learn English. Shakespeare is the second mostly quoted English writer after the Bible while his plays the most used in cinema. And what significance for the British? It means glory for the English language plus financial gains.

Swahili prolific author and lecturer, Prof Said Ahmed Mohammed Khamis
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