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Time to save African languages from extinction

Chinua Achebe   Chinua Achebe: His novel Things Fall Apart, the most famous book in African literature, does not yet exist in his language Photo: Courtesy
 

“Repeat after me. The red lorry went round the red bend,” an older brother turned English elocutionist would say to me.

“The led lolly went lound the led bend,” I would attempt. “Try again, repeat after me – The red lorry went round the red bend”.

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