'Langi Toppled Obote'
New Vision (Kampala)
NEWS
June 10, 2005
Posted to the web June 10, 2005
NEWS
June 10, 2005
Posted to the web June 10, 2005
By Alex Ocen
Kampala
Kampala
LIRA Municipality MP Cecilia Ogwal has blamed the UPC party president, Dr. Milton Obote, for derailing the party activities and causing a drastic fall in the number of supporters.
"The current restructuring of the UPC leadership at the Uganda House by Dr. Obote has caused a lot of UPC party supporters migrations to other political parties. As a result, our struggle towards multipartyism has been weakened," Ogwal said.
Addressing a UPC district executive committee in Lira recently, Ogwal said even UPC MPs had dropped from 35 to less than 15.
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'Langi Toppled Obote'
New Vision (Kampala)
NEWS
June 10, 2005
Posted to the web June 10, 2005
NEWS
June 10, 2005
Posted to the web June 10, 2005
By Denis Ocwich And Walter Akwat
FORMER president Milton Obote could still be in power if his own tribesmen did not betray him, a minister from Lango region has said.
"Obote lost power because his own people were against him. We would be in power up to today," said Felix Okot-Ogong, the state minister for youth and child affairs.
Obote, now exiled in Zambia, was the first post-independence Prime Minister from 1962 before he was overthrown in a military coup by Idi Amin in 1971. He bounced back after the 1980 elections, but was again deposed in 1985 by a military junta of Tito Okello.
Okot, who is also MP for Dokolo in Lira district, said this on Saturday at a party organised by Lango students at Makerere university and Makerere university Business School at Kyadondo Rugby Grounds.
Kiswahili is a Language With an Economic Culture
New Vision (Kampala)
OPINION
June 10, 2005
Posted to the web June 10, 2005
OPINION
June 10, 2005
Posted to the web June 10, 2005
By Kajabago-ka-Rusoke
This is in connection with what Prof. Livingstone Walusimbi of Makerere University says about Kiswahili as a language.
There was a suggestion from sources of legislature that Kiswahili should be adopted as a second language to English in Uganda.
Prof. Walusimbi pointed out that this language was a language made up of mere words from different languages and therefore had no "culture".
In linguistics such a language is referred to as "pidgin". That is what Prof. Walusimbi says. It is necessary to correct this.
First, the human being is an economic being. All words used by the human being represent and reflect work done in a variety of economic units on a given territory. The struggle for "talk" is because of the intensification of economic activities in the struggle for obtaining means of subsistence and communication between those engaged in the processes of economic production, exchange, and consumption.
Economic intensification processes transformed "larynx" to push the tongue further towards utterances which utterances constitute words constitute "language." It is the economic as a "culture" which gives rise to language but not language giving rise to culture. The economic is primary while language is secondary, although in the long run language also becomes part of culture; art, music, drama, drawing, painting, sculpture, etc.
As economic activities intensify greater impact is made on the cortex on the brain of the human being resulting gradually in a better way of thinking by the human being, with more words were created, subsequently enriching language. This is shows there is no language that does not have culture when every language originates from culture and becomes part of that culture on a given territory.
The faculty of Etymology tells us that the word "Swahili" comes from Arabic. It means "cast", i.e. "Sahel". The Arabs who began trade in East Africa bought items from the mainland but concentrated more on the coast of the Indian Ocean where they sold them.
There they found Bantu people to whom they referred as "Swahel" meaning people of the coast. Kiswahili has an economic culture. Otherwise it could not be a language.
Luganda, which Prof. Kiwanuka prefers to Kiswahili also has an economic background which makes it speakable. Luganda is understood in all Bantu areas of Uganda. To say that Kiswahili has no culture when Luganda has, only shows that the professor is dehydrated in terms of social science.
The writer is a lecturer at the National Leadership Institute, Kyankwanzi
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