HISTORY / Military / Land Forces

Paper · Semantic Scholar

This paper examines the historical trajectory, institutionalisation, and contemporary role of Kiswahili within Uganda’s armed forces, highlighting its significance as both a functional and symbolic language. Kiswahili, a Bantu lingua franca with extensive Arabic, Persian, and European lexical influences, originated along the East African coast and gradually spread inland through trade, missionary activity, and colon…

Reference · Wikidata

military branch for ground warfare