Masai

Masai

Saturday, September 18, 2010

African Cultures slipping away

Ok. Why is it that most of the literature, newspapers, magazines, education, radio stations, and TV shows are all in English or Afrikaans (the language of the oppressors).  When English is the fourth most spoken language here? This is sad…and personally a mini foretelling of what the culture has come too…completely overtaken by English dynamics. It has to be awful not having the ability to hear news or read important information in your own language. There are 11 official languages of South Africa...where can these people find literature in their own respective languages???  Whats wrong with the indigenous African languages?? I can’t imagine. I thought colonization was over…no to me, it’s still happening.  The government gives you the “right” to speak whatever language you want, however limits you to only the language of the British and Dutch languages ...if you want to be apart of modern society. So isn’t this a way of taking away that right? However so discreetly…

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