坦桑外长在Palamagamba J.A.M. Kabudi在Bomas of Kenya的演讲，解释肯尼亚BBI的重要性和对于东非政治的影响，特别是对于部落主义、民族主义和东非一体化的评价，因为斯语说得太好，而且原本达累斯萨拉姆大学法学教授的他还有拉丁文的炫技加分，演讲完后肯尼亚所有政治家起立鼓掌。

演讲全文：
mheshimiwa raisi wa jamhuri ya Kenya
mheshimiwa Uhuru Muigai Kenyatta
mheshimiwa kaimu raisi wa Kenya, William Samoe Ruto
mheshimiwa waziri mkuu mstaafu, mheshimiwa Raila Amolo Odinga
mheshimiwa seneta Yussuf Haji, mwenyekiti wa “kikosi kazi” – yaani task force “kikosi kazi” –
(mcheko)
cha jitihada za ujenzi wa madaraja katika jamhuri ya Kenya
nichukue fursa hii kwanza kabisa kumshukuru Mwenyenzi Mungu Rahim kwa kuturuzuku uhai
na kutujalia bukheri ya afya
iliyotuwezesha kusanyika hapa
siku ya leo kwa jambo hili adhimu na azizi.
(mcheko)
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2019年11月27日，在内罗毕的Bomas of Kenya，肯尼亚几乎所有的政治家都出席了关于BBI的发布会。总统Uhuru的演讲时最近几年听到的最有力的一次演说。

链接：https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAPOkblKFfY

Ahsanteni wenzangu tuketi nashukuru
wenzengu hamjambo
hamjambo tena
(hatujambo)
ebu tusalimiane tu tafadhali hata wale wako nje
tusalimiane sote
kama wakenya ambao wamesanyana hapa Bomas of Kenya
siyo kwa sababu ya mtu
lakini kwa sababu yetu sisi wote
kaimu wa rais, mheshimiwa Raila Amolo Odinga
viongozi vya vyama mbalimbali za kisiasa
waheshimiwa wabunge
maseneta, magavana, ma-MCA
viongozi wa kidini, viongozi wa akina mama
wenzetu mabalozi ambao wamehudhuria leo
na haswa mgeni wangu wa kipekee siku ya leo
waziri wa nchi za nje wa Tanzania
ndugu Kabudi ambaye mimi namwita „Kafudhi“

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(Fredrick Bosire, Swahili Lecturer, Shanghai International Studies University)

This comments and attempts to read out aloud Washikadau(Patrons), an interesting piece of poetry from Nairobi that I recently encountered. I dare presume that, the composer’s Chinese socialisation, study of Swahili and African Studies plus his studying abroad and immersion in the city life of Nairobi, which he thematises here, interplay uniquely as it externalises in this piece of work.

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