Re: Colonizers' Languages or Afrikan Languages?
It's interesting.
I was getting my hair braided in an Afrikan Braiding shop yesterday and tried to pick out the language they were speaking. It sounded like french. It made me wonder if they knew how to speak the indigenous language to where they were form.
It made me really sad. All of us were Afrikan, but we couldn't understand each other because we all spoke the languages of the oppressors.
I think it's most important to learn Afrikan languages first, to make sure we have a grounding in a language that is ours, not one forced upon us.
The question though is, it still doesn't fix the problem of how to communicate with another Afrikan who doesn't speak or understand the same language as you.
Would the solution be to learn the most predominant languages?
For there to be a universal Afrikan language?
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