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<div>Haha I thought about Sheng too. It's a great candidate, but if we look at the bigger prospects of regional integration, Kiswahili captures the cake. It's already standardized, well known and has a great reputation. W<br></div><div><br></div><div>Have a great evening.<br></div><div><br></div>
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On Friday, April 5, 2019, 4:13:52 PM GMT+3, Jimmy Gitonga <jimmygitts@gmail.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754"><div><div class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754">Actually Patrick,</div><div class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754"><br class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754" clear="none"></div><div class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754">I agree with you. Kenya can become a nation now that it is a state. And it is true that Julius Nyerere pulled out a feat that created the Tanzania today. Then we need to watch Sheng’ become in the next 50 years, our 'de facto' national language. It will have enough vocabulary, music and visual art to lay the foundations of a distinct culture very much like Kiswahili did at the eastern coast of Africa. There are very many dialects of Kiswahili at the moment. And so for Sheng.</div><div class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754"><br class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754" clear="none"></div><div class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754">Are we ready for Sheng’ fashion?</div><br class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754" clear="none"><div class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754">
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<br class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754" clear="none"><div><blockquote class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754" type="cite"><div class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754yqt0460190721" id="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754yqtfd36803"><div class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754">On 5 Apr 2019, at 2:39 AM, Patrick A. M. Maina <<a shape="rect" class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754" href="mailto:pmaina2000@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">pmaina2000@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754Apple-interchange-newline" clear="none"><div class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754"><div class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754" style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;">I disagree with your assertion that Kenya will "never" be a nation and here's my reasoning: There are different ways that countries and/or nation-states can form and not all of them are organic. Conquests (via wars or colonization) are historically valid (albeit ethically controversial) methods of artificially creating or consolidating countries.<span class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754"></span><span class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754"><span class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754Apple-converted-space"> </span>Nation-states can also be artificially created after the artificial countries have been formed, through<span class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754">strategic cultural engineering</b><span class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754Apple-converted-space"> </span>to introduce a new source of common "cultural" identity over time (the easiest route being a language that is linguistically compatible with preexisting languages).<span class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754"><span class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754"><br class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754" clear="none"></b></span></span></div><div class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754" style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;"><span class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754"><span class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754"><b class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754"><br class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754" clear="none"></b></span></span></div><div class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754" style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;"><span class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754"><span class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754"><b class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754">Tanzania<span class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>is a great example of successful cultural engineering in Africa. Mwalimu Julius Nyerere had the brilliant foresight to strategically position<span class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754">Kiswahili<span class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>as a unifying language - which pre-emptively solved the problem of tribalism in a country that had<span class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754">over 100 ethnic groups.</b></span><span class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754Apple-converted-space"> </span>Tanzania is now enjoying the benefits of being a strategically engineered nation-state (e.g. fairly stable, issues based politics).<span class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></div></div></div></blockquote></div><div class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754yqt0460190721" id="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754yqtfd88317"><br class="ydpcedf036byiv6507828754" clear="none"></div></div></div></div>
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