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Unified learning shows 'town games' for what they really are

Lawyer Nzau ya Musau, Author Kingwa Kamencu and Judie Kaberia,during launch of Ugandan Sam Mugumya's "We Refuse To Be Victims" book ,on 14th March 2025 at FNF in Gigiri,Nairobi.[Edward Kiplimo,Standard]

Linguists have differed on many things, but they are unanimous that no language is primitive or superior to another. From Edward Sapir, an American linguist of German-Jewish descent who did impressive research among Native Indigenous American communities and taught at Yale, to Ngugi wa Thiong’o, who wove an impassioned case for decolonising speech by upholding the dignity of African languages in an imperialist world, to the father of modern linguistics himself, Noam Chomsky, and his explanation that all languages share the same innate basic structure, they all agree that any language, from Kimbeere to French to German and back to Eastlands’ ever-growing Sheng, has within its corpus the resources it needs to express meaning and communicate.

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