₦airaland Forum

mobutuseseko:
. I wonder what you mean by this, English was adopted in the face of even bigger challenges, they came so few and met us in large numbers but chose to teach us their language and it worked and has further divided us. Who ever said you can't carry out infrastructure while people are learning a new language, guess what they Chinese too have started selling their language realizing the importance and effect it has on one's mentality. Negropean!

Who and what did English divide? What intimate relationship did Nigerian groups have within their ethnic borders, let alone a pan-African brotherhood? The idea of Europe dividing Africans is mostly not true, what happened was that sentiments were created and strife was heightened. The idea of an African continent is not even African, no African language has a pre-European name for the continent of Africa and Swahili would have seemed as foreign and as strange to pre-European contact 'Nigerians' as English did. Now who is the Negropean?

Just stick with major regional languages, Asia doesn't seem to need to knock down all its borders and sing kumbaya for them to have a healthy or healthier economic climate.

There are more than 100 million people in West Africa whose first or second language is Yoruba. I used to say Africa should create a proto Bantu language thesame way the Jews created Hebrew from Phoenician but now I think otherwise, Nigeria should divide with the new nations using their mother tongues and English, then Yoruba children should be able to speak five languages at least. Many people do so in Nigeria nowadays. A Bida person might be able to speak Nupe, Yoruba, Hausa, English, Gwari making 5 and many people in the Middlebelt and Northeast. Apart from 100 million Yoruba speakers, we also have up to another 100 million who know the language to varying extents because they are Yoruba in the diaspora who are Aborishas.

So when Nigeria breaks up, we use our Yoruba along with English, let other people keep their languages as well and use it to preserve it, then use English and some other major languages as well.

Any African national language should be at least a synthesis of Niger-congo and Nilo-Saharan.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Africa

panafrican:
Any African national language should be at least a synthesis of Niger-congo and Nilo-Saharan.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Africa

If there is a Yoruba country, I will prefer that the country joins the European Union than a Union with Kenya or Egypt which we really as Yorubas have nothing much in common with. We trade more with the EU.

lawani:
If there is a Yoruba country, I will prefer that the country joins the European Union than a Union with Kenya or Egypt which we really as Yorubas have nothing much in common with. We trade more with the EU.

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