South Africa’s opposition leader and Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) Julius Malema has called for a ‘United States of Africa’, boarder-less currency and Kiswahili to be used as a common language across the 56 nations.
“We need to start doing away with those things. Maybe not in our generation, but in generations to come, we must develop a common language that can be used throughout the continent. Like Swahili, if it can be developed as the language of the continent,” Malema said on Wednesday during an EFF media briefing.
Swahili aka Kiswahili is the official language in Kenya and Tanzania, widely spoken in Uganda, Burundi, Rwanda, DR Congo and among some of the Central parts of Africa.
“We need a border-less continent, We need one currency, one parliament and one President that can unite the continent. We need a United States of Africa. We need one Africa,” he said.
Kiswahili which is also among the official languages in African Union has more than 100 million speakers.
It is also the listed as one of the most popular languages of the world .
Recently Malema who wrote a viral speech during the burial of Mama Winnie Mandela dubbed ‘Mama they are here’ rebuked Kenyan judges for putting on colonial wigs.
Julius Malema throwing shades at Kenya over judges wearing colonial wigs says #Kenya isn’t independent. pic.twitter.com/d5qIFeuoa8
— Kenya West (@KinyanBoy) August 29, 2018
