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Hi - My name is Josephine Lukoma and I am working on the Luganda section of the African Tongues Project.  I am a native of Uganda who was born in Kenya and then lived in Botswana and attended school in Swaziland as well the USA. 

I am very interested in this project because over my life I have come to see the power of languages and also come to see how we can really use language to engage with our cultures -even if we are living in foreign lands. 

Let me explain a bit...My Mother and Father always spoke to my siblings and I in Luganda as children.  It was a priority for them that we knew about our language and culture and we even had home schooling at different points from my Mother in Luganda where one unforgettable phrase from a textbook we used was "Amazi gakulkutira gye gatakulkutiranga" (sp?).   Botswana became home and has been for many years -but we always had a bit of Uganda there with us. 

Growing up I recall that my Mother especially, would speak to us in Luganda and we would tend to respond in English.  Funny enough as happens to many expatriate children we sometimes gravitate towards english usage and our own languages take somewhat of a back seat until we begin to get older.  So I do have to thank my parents and all the many Uncles and Aunties and their children in the different Ugandan communities in the different countries who also spoke to me in Luganda. 

As I got older I wanted to become better at speaking my own language but now I was no longer living at home so it was not as easy to practise.  If you wind forward some years I moved to Massachusetts and I began attending The Fletcher School where I met 2 Ugandan ladies (Doreen and Jane) who spoke much better Luganda than I did.  As usual I was shy but I am grateful that they always encouraged me "to practise" and did not laugh at me too much with my Lug-English -and so I slowly started improving in my spoken Luganda.  I am no expert yet, still learning, but I am happy to share what I know of the beauitful language known as luganda.  So I hope you enjoy learning a bit with me...And I promise to try and keep the phrases easier than the one above.  I hope you will also contribute to this project so we can learn about each others languages wherever you may be. 

Hi, I'm goldenrail.  Nchimunya in Zambia.

Born in 1982 in a family of nine, Simon Mwangi Muthiora attended Kamondo Primary School before joining Kanunga High School. He lator joined Estenest Group of Colleges where he took Community Development & Project Management. He is a member of Kenya National Youth Parliament and is the Junior M.P. for Githunguri Constituency. He is working with the Ministry of Planning, National Development & Vision 2030 as a CDF Projects Manager. He has a vast experience in Civil Society movements having worked with Kenya Human Rights Commission, Transparency International, Young Human Rights Activist, Health Serve International among others. He is the Author of several Short stories, tenths of poems a full length Play among others. He writes for pleasure. He likes watching Documentaries and reading Autobiographies of worlds renounced Leaders. He runs a poetry blog called TWO HOURS BEFORE at: http://www.twohoursbefore.blogspot.com His ambition is to be a real agent of change and a mouthpiece for the vulnerable and less fortunate in this Nation.

Professeur d’Anglais Français au Mali,

Traducteur au groupe Global Voices français

Traducteur de la plate forme de maneno en bambara, Maneno.org

Promoteur de la langue bambara à la bibliothèque numérique pour l’apprentissage des langues africaines African Tongues

My names are Njeri Wangari. I am a multi talented Kenyan poet, performer, IT specialist and arts blogger. My love for the arts began at an early age through my appreciation of African culture. This, I found to be well expressed in many of the books that I started reading while still young and they have shaped the person I have now become.

The year 2004 is when I penned down my first poem and 3 years later I made my first attempt in front of an audience to share my poems. I am currently among some of the most talented Kenyan poets. I recently shared a stage with the Legendary Oliver Mtukudzi in show in Nairobi.

I have been running my blog, www.Kenyanpoet.blogspot.com for over 3 years now - a project that I initially started in order to publishing my poetry online. It has since grown to incorporate other forms of art as well as host other poets. I have contributed immensely to the promotion of Kenyan Poetry not only on stage but also through the internet through my reviews on art performances. I am currently part of the Global Voices Online-An online portal for citizen journalists as a writer on African Art.

I have come to be known as the voice of reason and change in the poetry circles due to the content and theme of my poems which range from Culture, religion, human rights, gender, poverty, technology and everyday challenges in the Kenyan society.

I write my poems in English, Kiswahili, Sheng and Gĩkũyũ

I am not very sure how I came to know about African Tongues, either from twitter or from a blog and I immediately took a keen interest in it.

I have many friends who are from the same tribe as I am, Agĩkũyũ. The most unfortunate thing is, they cannot speak their mother tongue. This is something that I have never faced as I learnt Gĩkũyũ from a very young age and I am quite comfortable reading, speaking and even writing in it.

I would like to use the power of the web to teach many who would be interested in learning Gĩkũyũ and hope that they can be in touch with their roots.

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I am a Project Manager/Web Developer and I live in Boston and work for Oxfam America.

My passions include, taking care of my daughter, Shanti, playing soccer, watching sports, African politics, non-profits, micro-financing and much, much more. I am, basically, a night-owl that loves to work on projects that promise to help relieve societal problems.

Even though I am teaching Twi, I am not the greatest Twi speaker. I’m, to tell you the truth, learning as I teach along so I hope I learn as much as I teach.

Feel free to send me comments on my lessons or follow me on Twitter.