Honia-Heal Afrika Initiative (HAI)

By the Pen of Gĩtaũ wa Kũng’ũ.
The beauty of Pan Africanism is its world’s richest linguistic flavour and biodiversity. For instance, Pan Africanists enjoy their quality time to promote their rich, diversified Mama Afrika tongue by teaching each and learning from the other. Wĩĩ mwega, nyũmba? – Greetings in Gĩkũyũ language for How are you, my kin? Response: ĩĩ ndĩ mwega, nyũmba.
The Agĩkũyũ are the largest ethnic community in Kenya. They are Highland Bantus existing in Mt Kirĩnyaga region, the parents of the Mau Mau Freedom Fighters Movement in the fertile Kenyan Highlands.

Amongst Africa’s skyscraping challenges to an African community united for a common purpose, linguistic regression by imperialist languages stands the tallest!
A united empire of Africa remains sadly a happy, dancing ‘2006, the year of African languages’ day dream until we have dropped the divisive imperial languages and taken into place a common indigenous language of communication.
Can you envision an Africa where one day, Africans will be teaching African languages in European, American, Asian and Australian schools. English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese and other imperial languages are taught in African schools today.
Who said that Swahili, Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, Amharic, Lingala, Shona, Somali, Zulu, Berber, Gĩkũyũ, Fulani and other indigenous African languages cannot be taught in education systems all over world?
How much will that have empowered our African GDP by creating opportunities for job employment in not only within the continent first but also in the language departments of overseas institutions of learning!
But how shall we get to appreciate our wealthy African history and healthy culture if we still use imperial languages as our languages of communication?
We have been raised believing in the imperialists’ white lie that we are inferior to them and they are superior to us. And many we’ve believed it!
Why not, children wonder, when we study and are examined in imperial languages and our government addresses us in imperial languages?
You will find our beautiful, black queens and princesses hating their rich African beauty and scraping their melanin by wearing layers of carcinogenic, skin-whitening chemicals to look like and so feel superior like Mzungu!
First things first. I believe that a common language is the mother of a united Africa.

When I was learning a Sociolinguistics course unit at Moi University, Kenya my mind was opened I got my head around the fact that African languages can be saved from the strangulation of the imperial languages and a marauding extinction.

Dr Tirop inspired me to hit the books and leave no stone unturned until I finally contribute to the rejuvenation and development of the African languages.
I have ever since engaged in an independent research envisaged to partake in instituting of a smart, sustainable policy and strategic implementation plan for African diversified communities’ linguistics development.
That’s amongst the reasons I support Pan Africanist Prof PLO Lumumba’s candidature for the Chairpersonship of African Union Commission.
I believe that it is only under his stewardship, that our diverse African languages will be promoted and the language barrier between us broken by instituting a common African language of communication.
You should also pull your weight behind the Pan Africanist philosopher and together, in the spirit of Ubuntu, we shall build our African posterity an infallible foundation for the greatest modern human civilisation in our own African ecosystem.
Greet us in your African mother tongue. Tell us how to respond and say something we should know about your cultural community. Let’s promote our indigenous languages! Thaayũ- Shalom.