Nairobi Ranked Top City in Africa in English Proficiency
A new study has found Nairobi to be the city with the most English proficient speakers and writers in Africa.
The Kenyan capital city scored 61.94 percent in terms of knowledge of spoken and written English, according to the English Proficiency Index (EPI) 2019.
The EPI index, which ranked 100 countries and regions, indicates that only two African cities made it to the high proficiency group. The two cities are Nairobi (61.94 percent) and Lagos (Nigeria) with a score of 58.47 percent.
On the global stage, Kenya’s English language skills ranked 18th, the second-highest on the continent after South Africa that ranked sixth in the world.
Nigeria and Ethiopia ranked 29th and 63rd respectively while Libya ranked the lowest. About 13 African countries participated in the survey.
Kenya, Sudan, Côte d’Ivoire, Bahrain, Kyrgyzstan, Maldives, Nepal, and Paraguay were among the new entrants in the 2019 survey.
The scores were determined through analyzing results from 2.3 million adults who took an online English test in 2018 via EF Standard English Test.
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Who cares. Its not an…
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Who cares. Its not an African language...as if Britons will think Africans are smart because they speak good colonialist language.
Kenyan E flush was getting …
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In reply to Who cares. Its not an… by Isaidso (not verified)
Kenyan E flush was getting "Pathetic and Patheticker, Bad and Badder" until MAtiang'i and MAgoha came to Scene. Credit to the 2 now the Language is gotten "Good, Goodder, and Goodest" in Africa.
That's a worthless…
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That's a worthless achievement.
This Nairobi thing (as the…
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In reply to That's a worthless… by Ex diasporan (not verified)
This Nairobi thing (as the Higghest) has been RIGGED as has been the usual Norm in Kenya beginning at KICC back in 2007 by Martha Karua: Corrup thru' and through! It smells a SHAM. Why? Because if this News article says here that "On the global stage, Kenya’s English language skills ranked 18th, the SECOND-highest on the continent after South Africa that ranked 6th in the world", then some South African City should be ranked HIGHEST in Africa; not Nairobi. Anyway .......
Ati research...I thought so…
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In reply to This Nairobi thing (as the… by GUEST1 (not verified)
Ati research...I thought so too @Guest..... EPI and global wtf ... mara SA mara Nbi and Lagos.....
Nway, you should see how parents in Nairobi beam with joy telling when their kids 'stutter' speaking their mother-tongues with an English accent..
This is not achievement. The…
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This is not achievement. The real proficiency should be in Kiswahili
Is this supposed to be an…
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Is this supposed to be an achievement ? I wish we are no. 1 in devt, with all that Master's language and we are not at per with Malaysia and Singapore, keep kissing white men butts because you can speak good English, yeah be very proud ......!
As if colonistic languages…
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As if colonistic languages improve African lives....nonsense!
Have these pple talked to…
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Have these pple talked to waititu or pastor nganga .... labish .. allogant
Why is this important! It is…
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Why is this important! It is meaningless. We have our own languages -- Swahili.
Not surprised by Ethiopia…
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Not surprised by Ethiopia. They were never colonized. Kenyan mind still too colonized. Look at the news anchors you would think you are live in London.
@ Mugikuyu.You are right,…
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In reply to Not surprised by Ethiopia… by Mugikuyu (not verified)
@ Mugikuyu.You are right, Kenyan mind is still in the colonial chains.What ashame. I still say,we change Lake Victoria to Lake Kisumu,or K'ogalo...
Mobutu had agood idea of authenticating african names,but he did it the wrong way-by forcing the congolese to adapt them. He should have taught them to be proud of african names first by showing them that it was not necessary to chance just to please mzungu.
That equals how colonized…
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That equals how colonized our minds are. A shame.
To the colonizers, this is a…
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To the colonizers, this is a huge achievement having suppressed and destroyed African languages. To the African ( the colonized) in the year 2020, this is a big shame and we should be working hard to move away from English, a foreign language and invest in our languages. " To speak is to live for another". Our leaders and us are still stammering in a foreign language. What a shame!!!
In other words, Nairobi is…
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In other words, Nairobi is 62% indoctrinated. By the time it gets to 100% everybody in Nai will be light skinned by association or bleaching.
Leads in English proficiency…
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Leads in English proficiency and joblessness. That's expected from the loads of graduates that universities mill out every year. Mastery of a foreign language does not equate brilliance or intelligence. It's evidence of colonized minds.
Each country always lead…
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Each country always lead yearly with their own thing.Usa still leads with gaysm ushoga ushelati.It has remained number 1 in the world for many years.
THIS IS THE KIND OF BS THAT…
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THIS IS THE KIND OF BS THAT EXCITES KENYANS UNFORTUNATELY AND IS TOTAL BS.
Yall are very idiotic. U…
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Yall are very idiotic. U complain about Kenya forsaking its "Kiswahili" yet swahili was invented by Bantus and Arab just for Trad. Meaning out of necessity.
Well welcome to the 21st Century where we wanna communicate with the worldn not only East Africa.
And those moaning about colonialsm, then get off the internet and go live in the forest then. The internet, currency,way of life, media , phones were brought to us by the West and u still wanna cry about it.SMH
Yall are very idiotic. U…
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Yall are very idiotic. U complain about Kenya forsaking its "Kiswahili" yet swahili was invented by Bantus and Arab just for Trade. Meaning out of necessity.
Well welcome to the 21st Century where we wanna communicate with the world not only East Africa.
And those moaning about colonialsm, then get off the internet and go live in the forest then. The internet, currency,way of life, media , phones were brought to us by the West and u still wanna cry about it.SMH
Yall are very idiotic. U…
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Yall are very idiotic. U complain about Kenya forsaking its "Kiswahili" yet swahili was invented by Bantus and Arab just for Trade. Meaning out of necessity.
Well welcome to the 21st Century where we wanna communicate with the world not only East Africa.
And those moaning about colonialsm, then get off the internet and go live in the forest then. The internet, currency, banking system,Government system,Transport systems, modern medicine, media , phones were brought to us by the West and u still wanna cry about it.SMH
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