One of the challenges with African languages is that, with the arrival of both modernity and colonial languages, the natural inventory system within the language died.
The population pressure, globalisation and spread of industrialisation are the common culprits of language murder in Africa.
Most parents in Africa and guardians believe that for their children to be seen as educated, they have to speak and write English not forgetting that English is part of colonial legacy. This is to the detriment of local languages.
People without knowledge of their history, origin and culture are like a tree without roots.
Besides language, research has proved that whatever terms, technical, scientific expressed in English can equally be said in the African languages for instance, the Bible has been successfully translated into many African languages.
The evidence also suggested that the countries like China, Japan, South Korea, Germany, and France conduct their education system in their own languages. It is very important to draw a lesson from the page of history which bears witness in African context of development in general which cannot be realised without taking into the consideration, the use of African indignant languages.
By the next century, near to half of African languages spoken on earth are most likely to disappear as community and society abandon their mother tongues in favour of English.
The community must encourage younger children to use African languages in school and even later in life at institutions of higher learning and the work places to achieve avoid total extinction.
Lenin Odongo,
leninodongo12@gmail.com
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