Zimbabwe: The Language, Culture and Development Matrix

12 September 2014

THE development and promotion of indigenous languages is a crucial endeavour needing urgent national discourse particularly at this juncture when most African countries are battling to find a suitable developmental model for the broader social and economic transformation of people.

After experimenting with various economic models without tangible results, African governments now need to realise that as long as African languages are restricted to oral use while children learn in foreign tongues, underdevelopment will remain a living reality on the continent.

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