Roll Out The Red Carpet For African Languages Instead Of Pulling The Rug Out…
Earlier this year in Paris, UNESCO hosted the official global launch of 2019 as the Year of Indigenous Languages.
This red-carpet affair called for an international drive to recognise, celebrate and preserve languages as “repositor[ies] for true
identit[ies]”,histories, traditions and memories. Over 7 000 languages are spoken across the world, though remarkably,
only 4% of these languages are spoken by a mammoth 97% of the world’s population….
