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<DIV>What is your thought on this article: Universities accused of killing
Africn languages?</DIV>
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<DIV>Who do you think should be accused of killing African languages;
universities or African language policy leadership?</DIV>
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<DIV>I believe that African governments have to take initiatives in terms of
promoting African mother tongues by allocating enough funding in this erea and
enhencing African young generation positive attitude toward using and doing
research in these languages. I can't remember which African nation has its
constitution translated in its national languages. </DIV>
<DIV>If languages, in our era of economic revolution, are learned as social
capital; African governments need to invest into African mother tongues by
exposing their new generation to instrumental motivation. Foreign languages
dominate over African languages because of thei social capital that they provide
to those who use them. African language leadership and governments have to
invest money and instrimental motivation into African languages.
Universities will be ready to buy African languages once this proposal is
executed.</DIV>
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<DIV>David Balosa </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>