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Tanzania adopts Swahili to unite the country
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:10:02
Publish Date: 2023-11-30 10:00:00
Description:

After Tanzania, then called Tanganyika, became independent from Britain in 1961, the country's leader, Julius Nyerere, made Swahili the national language to unite its people.

Walter Bgoya tells Ben Henderson about his conversations with Nyerere and how the policy changed Tanzania.

(Photo: Julius Nyerere. Credit: Keystone via Getty Images)
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