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What is Your Mother Tongue?

Reading and writing in Africa's rich and complex linguistic environment

What happens to a language if no one writes in it? A look at the complex issue of communication and literature in a continent filled with 'borrowed languages'. Where does Africa stand on the debate over which languages to use for reading and writing in the digital age?
Presenter: Gabriel Gbadamosi.

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30 minutes

麻豆社 World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project