This is one of the consequences of a superior education, you see. In this independent, hundred-per-cent-empowered and fully and totally indigenous blacker-than-black country, a superior education is one that the whites would value, and as whites do not value local languages at the altar of what the whites deem supreme. So it was in colonial times, and so it remains, more than thirty years later. Petina Gappah
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A century ago, the whites valued the language of the African people. However, today, having come to power, the white people have started to discard African languages without any thought on the consequences. They have also started making their natives’ education inferior or even not available to all. This is one of the consequences of a superior education, you see.

In this independent, hundred-per-cent-empowered and fully and totally indigenous blacker-than-black country, a superior education is one that the whites would value, and as whites do not value local languages at the altar of what the whites deem supreme. So it was in colonial times, and so it remains, more than thirty years later.

Source: The Book Of Memory

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