CJCA: Addition of the Swahili language as a working language of the CJCA
With a view to reaching the greatest number of African readers and making it easier for them to follow the activities of our organization and thus contribute to disseminating constitutional culture on the African continent, the General Secretariat of the CJCA, under the leadership of its President, took the initiative of opening up to the other African languages.
This approach will make it possible, as a first step, to add Swahili to the four (04) working languages of the organization and which are already used on the CJCA website; it will subsequently be followed by the addition of other languages, such as: Amazigh and Wolof.
Swahili is "among the ten most spoken languages in the world, with more than 200 million speakers", indicates UNESCO.
Originally from East Africa, Swahili is spoken in more than 14 countries: Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), South Sudan, Somalia, Mozambique, Malawi, Zambia, and Comoros. Southern African countries like South Africa and Botswana have introduced it in schools, while Namibia and other countries are considering doing so.
As a reminder, Swahili is one of the official languages of the African Union (AU).