Speaking mother tongue won’t bring down the Tower of Babel
Tower of Babel: The ability to learn another person’s language demonstrates respect for difference and willingness to understand those not like us and enhances commonalities. FOTOSEARCH
Early this year, I attended a blessing ceremony for Amani, a young lady who was going off to study abroad.
Uncle Yusuf sat between Amani and her grandfather. Uncle’s duty was to interpret and prompt Amani to respond to the blessings her grandfather bestowed on her. Uncle Yusuf’s role was important; grandfather could only communicate in his mother tongue. Amani could only communicate in Kiswahili and English.
