Colonial Impact on African Languages and Rebranded Scramble for Influence at Africa–France Summit
Colonial Impact on African Languages and Rebranded Scramble for Influence at Africa–France Summit
“Colonization was a violent process, a series of violent processes, and it was done; a lot of it was done through dispossession. People would lose land, and people would be reclassified. A real good example of this would be the languages spoken by the hunter-gatherer communities, the San communities, and the Khoi communities, which are ancient people, and their language is rooted in the land they live on, so if you dispossess people of land, then their language is under threat.”
“Kenya is lending herself as one of the new neocolonial agent satellite client countries. And it's something that we ought to condemn. And I hope that others will raise their voices and tell the current administration that we must not allow ourselves to be twisted around the fingers of one of the worst neocolonial powers ever, the French.”
#PanAfricanFrequency features interviews with Nadeema Jogee, Literacy Director at the South African branch of the Room to Read NGO, who traced the threads of colonial power to the damage done to African native languages, and Professor Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba, Kenyan lawyer, prominent Pan-Africanist, and founder of the PLO Lumumba Foundation, who argued that the Africa-France Summit planned in Kenya is far less historic and far more strategic.
Two conversations, One question that cuts deep: Has the scramble for influence in Africa ended? Share your take on this with us in the comments.
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