Nigeria: Gov Aliyu Tasks Nigerians On Indigenous Language

[Harold Schiffman]

 Forwarded From: edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu


allAfrica.com



Nigeria: Gov Aliyu Tasks Nigerians On Indigenous Language



Nigerians have been called upon to encourage writing of books in indigenous
languages as one of the tools of consolidating rich culture and values,
known with diverse African societies. Governor Mu'azu Babangida Aliyu of
Niger state, stated this at a launching of a book titled "Gadar Zare"
written in Hausa by Dr. Auwalu Anwar, in Kaduna. According to the governor
who was chairman of the occasion "a language must be encouraged, it must not
be assumed, if the people that use the language do not make it an important
embodiment of their lives, and it keep on borrowing and borrowing words, at
the end of the day, the language is over seventy percent foreign, then you
have a problem"



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Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone: (215) 898-7475
Fax: (215) 573-2138

Email: haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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