ABSTRACT
The republic of Tanzania, which is one of the member countries of the Southern Africa Development Co-ordination Conference, comprises the union of Tanganyika and the islands of the sultanate of Zanzibar. From its foundation in 1964 great efforts were made to unify the people of Tanzania, who were made up of about 130 tribes, using Kiswahili, the official language as one of the key instruments. English has the status of a co-official language but its use is limited to the educated élite.
