The Herald (Harare)
7 January 2008
READING through the first dictionary of biomedical terms in Shona language titled "Duramazwi Reurapi Neutano" reaffirms the belief that Africans learn best in their own languages, the languages they know from their parents and from home despite the globalising influence of English.
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I am astonished on reading that "the painful reality is that parents or patients in most African health institutions will use local languages". Why "painful"?
"Painful" would be a situation in which Africa had lost her true natural voice and was forced to speak a foreign colonial language. In instead, it is subject of pride for all mankind when Africans speak their own language and use it for all aspects of contemporary life.
Pls choose your adjectives in a less "colonial" way :)