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No country can make progress on the basis of a borrowed language, understood only by a minority.

— Kwesi Kwaa Prah

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If we continue to pretend that African languages are unimportant in the drive to achieve ‘education for all.

ICT is enormously important – it is moving the world forward and of great intellectual interest – but without African languages, we cannot make a difference to Africans. You cannot lift Africa without African languages.

Vietnam is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. They stopped using the language of their French colonisers: this is precisely why they are succeeding.

Education is still a privilege of the westernised elite. We talk about development through education and training, but in whose language?

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