Gambia: Language And Literacy - Tools of Repression Or Freedom?

opinion

From time immemorial, the world has never been free from competing ideologies. Some of the most recent ones even ignited wars that were, fortunately, never fought - the Cold War.

There is the green revolution debate that has brought academics, ecologists, conservationists and producers at loggerheads over biodiversity. Then, came the globalisation debate which centres on the spread of western forms of production and consumption and their accompanying contestations across of the world. Indeed over the years, the world has witnessed many ideological debates. And now, coming closer to the lives of the people, the language debate has also erupted with all sorts of protagonists having untold number of cases for their side of the debate. While in the past, events in one part of the world could not have possibly affected some other areas as a result of limited means of information dissemination, in the new world order, this is no longer so.

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