Foreign language teaching at universities in Kenya has been intensified, the Chinese language being one of the languages newly on offer
African Update – 22/07/10
Kenya's universities are rolling out foreign language programmes as nations and investors, especially from Asia, increasingly turn to the East African country for resources to boost their industrial growth. Recently, the somewhat controversial Confucius Institute of China (an institute purportedly similar to e.g. Goether Institute with the aim of promoting the Chinese language and culture. The institute has been at the same time somewhat controversial) and Kenyatta University launched a partnership that will reportedly promote the Chinese language learning and cultural and educational exchange programmes between the two countries.
Among other languages taught at universities are German, French, which is considered helpful from the perspective of trading of the neighbouring countries, in which French is one their official langauges. Other foreign language in the curriculum are for example Korean or Arabic.
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