SWAHILI  FADING?

I have in the recent past noticed there is these group of kids who are coming up.Mostly from the upper middle class and rich backgrounds.Who are monolingual,equipped with only one language of communication.And what's most baffling is how their parents/guardians are proud of it.To them it's a symbol of success.That they probably were able to foot a surmountable bill in this groups of schools and blah blah blah.

In my opinion though.Thats pure injustice on the part of the kids.Well in the urban setting,a kid if the parent does not insist enough can be excused for not attaining fluency on their vernacular.But to not even speak Swahili,the Lingua Franca,the language of the streets.That dominates immediately they live the confines of the suburbs is to face the world in the Kenyan context from a point of weakness.Well it's possible that they rest in the suburbs,in the corporate world,even out abroad for most of their lives.But to me it still doesn't work that way.I consider language a life skill needed to navigate life and swahili definitely is ,in the Kenyan context.

Before I forget,Gikuyu people in the diaspora are also doing something that's a bit funny for lack of a better work.Their kids of course in the Americas will speak English,it's the Lingua Franca.And their parents will teach them Gikuyu.Where these becomes exciting is where there is a gathering of Kenyan families where millennial and baby boomer parents who are not first generation Americans.Interac