Uganda is widely praised as one of the world’s most welcoming refugee hosts, opening its borders to families fleeing war and instability in South Sudan, DR Congo, Somalia, Burundi and beyond. But ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lawrence Alado is a JURIST Staff Correspondent in Uganda. This is one in a seasonal series of columns by JURIST law student staff and correspondents discussing their summer work in support of justice, ...

Reference is made to an article, Language policy hampering unity in Africa (Daily Monitor, January 23). The writer analysed the language policy in a very compelling manner. Anyone today engaged in ...

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 ...

Kampala — The French government launched a major initiative to enhance French language education across Uganda. The two-year, Shs 1.12 billion project, known as the French Education Framework (FEF), ...

A little over a year ago, Ugandan blogger Country Boyi wondered why Ugandans weren't blogging in local languages. He wrote: The power of indigenous languages to infiltrate the thinking of the local ...

Medadi Ssentanda received funding from Makerere University Directorate of Research and Graduate Training under the Nurturing Emerging Research Leaders Project (NERLP) to conduct research on the ...

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, ...