In South African Contributor Daniel Sincubas latest offering, Sincuba explains why Africans speaking their traditional languages is a key component to our overall political and economic development. He writes, among other things: Educating young Africans in their native tongues will surely serve to improve our education standards and make excellence more accessible to the masses. In how many core states is education served in foreign languages? English children don’t learn mathematics and science in Zulu. Ghanaian sociologist and anthropologist Kwesi Kwaa Prah said that education is not meant to be cultural schizophrenia but to help the youth relate to problems in their own environment and learn how to provide solutions. Not only is language important at the basic level, but beyond education, politics, and economics, speaking our mother tongue is a matter of pride and the instillation of confidence and identity. Think on it, what does it mean to say that western languages are the actual official languages in Africa in 2014? What do you think? Are we shortchanging ourselves and our future generations when we continue to speak in the language of our respective oppressors? Whats more, is the language we speak indicative of our overall level of mental, economic, and political freedom? https://face2faceafrica/article/african-languages#.VBtNsxbp-i4
Posted on: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 02:30:00 +0000
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