Tweet By: Nuunja Kenyan scholar Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has written extensively about the ‘language question’ in African literature, most prominently in his book Decolonizing the Mind where he famously rejected English as a medium for his writing. In fact, there has been a great deal of scholarship regarding the use of indigenous vs. foreign languages…
Tweet Using one language as the medium of instruction seems to be inevitably successful in some countries. However, in multilingual societies such as Morocco and Algeria, basing education on one medium of instruction results in the failure of the whole educational system. In this article, I plan to talk about Arabization, which was implemented as…
Tweet One may be wondering about the difference between an endangered language and an extinct one. The thing is that there is no difference because they both lead to the same result: extinction. A loss of a language is a loss of a large and unique repertoire of human knowledge. An endangered language usually has…
