WHAT IS THE FUTURE OF OUR HERITAGE IF CHILDREN ARE NOT SPEAKING THEIR INDIGENOUS LANGUAGE
WHO IS TO BE BLAMED?
Language is our soul.
(Aunty Rose Fernando, Gamilaroi Elder, 1998)

It amaze me when some Nigerian Parent will be like "My children can not speak my language".
And i ask my self WHY?
Our culture is suppose to be our heritage & our pride. but now we put culture aside and follow the Colony of some unknow things
We admit Civilization in a wrong manner, Civilization does not mean drop your heritage and your pride
It means enchance your culture & heritage. Language is the expression of our culture and our land
We cannot have one without the other, we cannot describe our culture and our land if we do not have language.
Language is the carrier of the cultural heritage of societies thus the death of a language constitutes the annihilation of norms, values, attributes and beliefs of the people.
But with the rapid extinction of Africa's indigenous languages, what then is the future of our heritage? The situation is worrying as the intrusion of foreign cultures through
the media facilitated by advanced communications technology are fast causing most, Africans to lose ties with their roots.

The European community speaks only about 230 languages and yet such languages have found their way onto the global language environment.
Meanwhile, Papua Guinea has speakers of 832 languages which exceed the combined languages of the
Europeans but none of her languages has gained an international appeal!
Our ability to preserve our indigenous languages is one way [/center]of empowering future generations to respect who they are and what they stand for.
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