Kenyan primary schools will from 2020 begin teaching the Chinese language, the government has said.
Kenya Institute of Curriculum Development (KICD) Chief Executive Julius Jwan says the move aims at improving the learners' job competitiveness and boost ties with China.
Jwan further says that the design and scope of the Chinese syllabus are ready and will be rolled out from 2020. Speaking to Xinhua news agency, Jwan says pupils from grade four (aged 10) and onwards will be able to take Chinese lessons from next year.
“The place of China in the world economy has also grown to be so strong that Kenya stands to benefit if its citizens can understand Mandarin,” Jwan says, adding that the growing political and economic ties between Kenya and China also informed this decision.
Kenya follows in the footsteps of South Africa and Uganda, who introduced Chinese syllabus in their education curriculums in 2014 and January 2019 respectively.
The move comes even as Kenya's Ministry of Education began rolling out the new Competency-Based Curriculum (CBC) this month. The new 2-6-3-3 system replaces the 8-4-4 curriculum, which has been used in the last three decades.
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Ngai! Nisamehe naomba!
Good move. Too hard to ignore Chinese and it's role
One more step in the take over of Kenya by the Chinese all because Ushuru is timid when he engages with the Chinese.
Where is the leadership? This is not what Kenyans voted for!
Pombe tu.
There we go. We had this discussion recently and I mentioned to you all what the next Kenyan syllabus will entail. I rightly predicated that it will be based on Chinese syllabus and learning Chinese language will be a requirement. Chinese are in Africa to stay. The African mind has been dormant for over two thousand years and the Communist Chinese leadership knows. They are operating in Kenya as British did when they first got there. The British gave Kenyans beads in exchange of land. The Chinese are giving us railway and tarmacked roads in exchange of our sovereignty. They are emptying their male jailbirds in our cities so that they can intermarry with African prostitutes with a hope of creating a new Afro-Chinese tribe that can one day take over the leadership. China is planting Chinese flags in our schools and transports systems in order to condition our children's minds. In Congo the Chinese destroying equatorial forest in exchange of bicycles. Africa needs divine intervention so that its alcoholic and sleeping leadership can be awakened
And can we also retain our vernacular language curriculum too boys and girls in the Ministry of Education??
If we have to learn Mandarin so we can ask the Chinese in their language to stop eating our dogs and killing our wildlife so be it. They(Chinese) still operate SGR so I would hope this new education system will teach our young ones how to build and operate SGR. Mwene Nyaga help us and curse the Kenyan sellouts who work with foreigners to betray their own country.