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Facebook Now Offered in Swahili

In Eastern Africa on June 15, 2009 at 10:11 am

_45925020_facebook226Social networking giant, Facebook, has given the go ahead for a group of Swahili scholars to launch a new version of Facebook using the Swahili language.  The scholars hope that this new initiative will help preserve the language with its youth.  “The youth, the future generation, if you look at the biggest percentage of users on Facebook, they are the youth,” says Symon Wanda, one of the project’s initiators. 

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