OUR KIND OF ENGLISH : Education ‘in shambles’; let’s ‘chat’ the way forward
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And then, if we’re to say it, longish words like ‘Dar es Salaam’ look rather ugly in a headline, don’t they? A senior colleague once educated this columnist that words such as this are NOT headline words! On Page 7 of Bongo’s senior-most broadsheet of Sat, Nov 3, there’s an article entitled ‘The Swahili debate comes back to earth’