Naturally, another 'force' that the author attempts to defend from the ongoing western demonization is Islam. Interestingly, it ties perfectly well with his defense of the then Chinese foreign policy not least because the admiral he seems to so much admire, Zheng He, was “from the line of Muslims who had migrated from Bukhara in Central Asia during the Mongol Yuan dynasty six generations earlier, and his grandfather and father had both apparently performed the Hajj” (Ibid. 294) and “his own Muslim background facilitated his dealings with rulers of many Islamic as well as Hindu states” (Ibid. 297).
lugha ya kufundishia ni Kiswahili, lakini kuanzia kidato cha kwanza hadi kwenye vyuo, lugha ni Kiingereza. Ingawa ukweli ni kwamba hata kwenye vyuo, mwalimu akiona haeleweki kwenye ukumbi wa mhadhara, huwa anabadilisha lugha na anatumia Kiswahili na mara mambo yanabadilika na kwenda vizuri. Katika Sera imetamkwa rasmi kuwa: “Serikali itakuza elimu ya awali ya watoto wenye umri wa miaka 0-6. Elimu hii itahakikisha kudumishwa kwa maadili yetu kiutamaduni”. Lakini hali halisi ya sasa, ni tofauti na