As an African, not knowing how to speak the English language doesn't make you an Illiterate. And we must liberate ourselves from these misguided views as well as the miseducation of the African people.
English belongs to the Indo-European family of languages and is therefore related to most other languages spoken in Europe and western Asia from Iceland to India. The parent tongue, called Proto-Indo-European, was spoken about 5,000 years ago by nomads believed to have roamed the southeast European plains. Germanic, one of the language groups descended from this ancestral speech, is usually divided by scholars into three regional groups: East (Burgundian, Vandal, and Gothic, all extinct), North (Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish), and West (German, Dutch [and Flemish], Frisian, and English). Though closely related to English, German remains far more conservative than English in its retention of a fairly elaborate system of inflections. Frisian, spoken by the inhabitants of the Dutch province of Friesland and the islands off the west coast of Schleswig, is the language most nearly related to Modern English. Icelandic, which has changed little over the last thousand years, is the living language most nearly resembling Old English in grammatical structure.
Modern English is analytic (i.e., relatively uninflected), whereas Proto-Indo-European, the ancestral tongue of most of the modern European languages (e.g., German, French, Russian, Greek), was synthetic, or inflected.
We have languages in Africa that can Also be an influence in the world especially the African Pidgin language.
An African parent will scold his or her child for speaking the African Pidgin language saying it's not the correct form of English language because We value what others have than what we have. The African Pidgin should be an official language that should Also be taught in schools all over the world and should have its own dictionary.. it's a language that needs to be promoted just like how the English language was promoted.
We should cultivate the habit of promoting what we have as Africans. Until we learn to cherish our own thing, the world will always disregard us. Our honour and respect will come to us when we first accept who we are. We are Africans and Africans are the rulers of the world.
I am Proud to be an African🌍 and I am Proud to be a Nigerian🇳🇬.
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