Kiswahili kitukuzwe: Swahili Day is a welcome fillip for all of us

World Kiswahili Day celebrations in Nairobi on July 7, 2022. PHOTO | DIANA NGILA | NMG

For the first year ever Kiswahili has been celebrated by the international community after the designation of an international day for it.

It now looks like Kiswahili, the East African lingua franca, is on the way to true world superstardom, or, at least, failing that, some relevance among people whose need for this language has been rather misunderstood.