An awakening clarion call for all Africans to realize the mediocracy of foreign acculturation at the detriment of our naturally beautiful African culture.
A man who betrayed his identity will always remains not only a second class fellow, but a third world citizen. Little wander, Africa countries are predominantly referred to as third world nations.
Self realization and self appreciation were the key to the economic prosperity of the Asian Tigers, their natural tongues (languages) are considered as their official mediums of instructions, medium of communication as well as the wheels that drive education and research in their various countries. It is no doubt that these Asian Tiger brothers are doing fine in all facets of life endeavors.
Our neocolonial masters in the West appreciate the beauty and the prowess of indeginous language, that’s why they all are thriving better in the world economic and political sectors. No Western countries can refers to it’s language as a vernacular, hence they all are proud of their respective languages even in the international conventions.
But for Africa, we have consciously traded our birthright for an unproductive treasure that has only limited us to the lowest stratum of the global socioeconomic ranking.
It is unnatural to relegate ones language to the background and still expect to thrive with a foreign language than the aboriginals of the language. Africa must be awaken to the reality at hand, our respective languages are the birthright given to us respectively to thrive in progress and prosperity. Nature was right to have created us distinctively different in tongues, the purpose was to make each of these languages a golden tool for natural refinement and societal transformation.
Betrayal of our languages is a denial of our birthrights, hence we continue to live at the mercy of others.
The power of the tongue (language) is mightier than the might of a million swords. It is however imperative for all Africans in their tongues and languages to encourage a social construct that will act as a frontier to officialize our local (natural) languages in our politics, education, research and indeginous science and technology.
We are far too gone with the erroneous thought to have denigrated our mother tongues, but we can still repent from our errors through conscious and deliberate engagement to exhume our buried mother tongues.
The only path to a sociopolitical freedom lies at the corridor of self realization, which can only be projected by the power of the tongue (mother tongue).
If we must thrive like others around the globe, we must start to appreciate and to officialize our mother tongues in Africa.
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