 Mu mazo mazo mazo mazo mazo Imωnumibolo. Tōkame de kāne. wa maizumaza wa maizumaza moa kanizia maizumaza maizumaza maizumaza maizumaza Adu wasi, kwa wagesfohili wasi amusibu kwa maanigia kwa Afrika. Kama maheni Mwa kwa maheni Afrika kwa Wanilia kwa miviko maheni. Tama maheni Apoi yaunia kwa wazima. Izumisha kwa maheni nanuek chaweja. Nikqaw kwa maheni na manisha kwa maheni. Zostmumisha na Mpa Kenwa Umi. Mwazifu kwa mprincha hakunama. in its story about the lion kingdom in the fictional pride lands of Africa. The phrase has actually been trademarked by Disney Corporation, which caused no small amount of furore by some supporters and speakers of the Kiswahili language. Even though it's not grammatically correct, it is not correct for a company to trademark our language or our culture, our inheritance and say it's theirs. Today it will be these two words that maybe don't make sense to us, but that's to them. Tomorrow it will be something else. Spoken by over 100 million people in East and Central Africa, it's one of the official languages of the African Union, and there's talk of making it a language spoken by all Africans. South Africa has recently adopted it into its curriculum. I go to conferences with fellow sisters from Africa. We speak French, we speak English, we speak and there's nothing that unites us also as Africans. So our children need that also to have a common identity with what is predominantly an African language, which is Kiswahili. While there are fears that factors like globalization are affecting many languages across the world, Swahili seems to be taking a different stride towards uniting a continent and perhaps becoming a Pan-African language. Salim Kikeke, BBC News, London. We'll get us post shortly with Mimi, but first, what is your mother tongue and you often speak it? It's Ibo from Niger. My mum actually has it going me a lot of the times because I don't really speak it that much. You don't speak it much? No. You should. I know that's true. That's what part of me chairs on Mimi. Asante Sofi, the very few words in Swahili that I know.