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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.

— Kwesi Kwaa Prah

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

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

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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