Meanwhile my wife's cousin is angry because we chose to give our baby a Ghanaian/Congolese names. She prefers a French name🤦🏼🤦🏼🤦🏼... The self hate within us is unbelievable
Just like a Nigerian family refused to speak their own language at home with their children. Very sad mother in law is very upset and try to educate them. It's has fallen on deaf ears. So sad 😕😕😕 They only want to speak English 😮😮😮
@@prayforglobalpeace3677 exactly! Else we'll not go anywhere. Because as it stands now, it looks as if we've been defeated. Ask yourself, how many Europeans or Americans are giving their children African names?
@@junebrowse1010 as serious as it sounds, it's happening in many homes even in Africa. Yet so many of us in the diaspora are trying so hard to let our children learn our language and culture so they don't lose their roots. Such an irony
Thanks Zack!! Great idea Senegal 🇸🇳 I'm a gambian 🇬🇲 and English is our official language while most people in the country cannot speak proper English. We have to learn our own native language in schools for our own good and future. We have a common languages with Senegal like wollof,mandinka,serere etc. Imagine the Gambia shared border with only Senegal but yet they are francophone and anglophone despite all the similarities between the two countries. The west wants to divide africa since colonial times. It's high time for us to be proud of ourselves as Africans and be proud of our norms, traditions and customs. I think that's the best way to move forward
Senegal is my next door neighbor, am Gambian and we are been surrounded by Senegal on all sides except on the Atlantic Ocean. We share many social, cultural and languages. So this is commendable move for Diouma faye and his Government.
About time!!! Its one of the first things we corrected when we got our independence. In RSA 🇿🇦 we speak our mother tongues. If you don't understand me that's your problem. You will learn to learn other languages
You got me today. Had to subscribe. Thank God we still have quite a significant number of our people speaking indigenous languages. My Setswana, my pride!!
Very important video. Two points. 1. It is very disappointing that we had to lose six decades before doing the obvious. How is it that the generations who are were closer to their ancestral past failed to act ? 2. Non-Africans in Africa kept their mother tongues. More than that they kept their entire foreign cultures, regardless of whether Europeans or Asians. This is one reason why they are both stronger than us. DNA is a marker of bio-geographical origin. Language is the DNA of social relations. The two are at the core of one’s identity and past. Forget these and one becomes driftwood in a vast ocean. If one does not know one’s origin, then how could one know where one is going?
Stop talking about TRIBE YOU ALL ARE AFRICANS TRIBE YOU ALL ARE ONE PEOPLE NOTHING WRONG WITH SPEAKING WOLOF IF IT MOSTLY SPOKEN, BUT STOP USING THATCWORD TRIBE ELSE YALL WILL ALWAYS FIGHTING EACH OTHER
@@africarain8294tribes are ethnic nations. Each has the right to their existence and self preservation. Focus on finding your village. Before seeking a repeat of the dispossession that those nations have endured for centuries. If there is any talk of only one language being spoken in any Afrikan country, be prepared to adopt the least spoken tongue amongst them.that way all can share th burden and risks presented by such an initiative in real time. AES chose to elevate all of their regional languages to official status. No one tongue is privileged over the others, all are embraced..
@@africarain8294Stop that. There are ethnic groups in Africa and we must accept that because it's a fact. The fact that there are different tribes doesn't mean we aren't the same people. It's just like a family, everyone has their character but doesn't mean they can't be United
I love the title ❤ Finally ❤️ I also love the point you make here at 7:07 - 7:30. Some people (of course non-Africans) really think this way and then claim they have no bad bone in their bodies. Like you said Sir it makes no sense!
Senegal is the country that i admire in the world. Very clean, calm and organized people with a vibrant culture and never boastful though a lot of them are wealthy.
A long time coming. Although communication has been messed up by French, Spanish and English colonisation, but if you want them to understand you then they should learn wolof, swahili etc...
This is beautiful ❤❤❤it's also great for the next generation to know their people's language/s before interfering with foreign languages, and this prevents the extinction of rich African cultures, in this case, cultures in Senegal.
??? They learn French at school and speak their tribal language at home and with friends. Wolof is never going extinct. You must have never been to Senegal 🇸🇳 to make this comment.
Let's be clear folks... if someone speaks good French that means they are well educated and serious about their future. It's just like speaking proper English. The average Senegalese person speaks a minimum of 3 languages. Many have multi ethnic families, mom and dad are different tribes so they learn two at home, French and Arabic and go to separate schools so that's four. There are 20 languages he said on the video... My boy... Senegalese start school at 5 or 6 not 9 YEARS OLD! You said you've never been here and it shows. If you want to talk about Senegal or Senegalese people from an objective viewpoint, run you subject matter by me first and I'll keep you from sounding foolish! They know their own language(s) STOP IT!
@@SenegalStyleLansarAuto it's people like you that keep outdated discrimination alive, since when does knowing your own language/s perfectly without knowing a foreign one the definition of lacking an education? The English from England and The French from France usually know their own language and basically no other language in the world and you say they are intelligent😂?? But for Africans only knowing their African languages even if they speak 3+ of them they are stupid?? Really? That's BS hun and straight up racism... that's like saying having a certain accent is a sign of or lack of intelligence, grow up please before you embarrass yourself. The Senegalese treating their cultures and indigenous languages as a first priority before any other foreign ones is the epitome of modern intelligence (in means of traditional and cultural values) and preserves their rich history.
This is uprising we did it in1976 in South Afrika language goes well with African cultures we as Africans are moving the right direction. AMANDLA we more than thunder afrika wake up.
I am afro-caribbean from Antigua,/ Barbuda & the national language is English and the more you sound like an English man you are being perceived as educated.
Senegal is one of few African countries where almost everyone speaks one language, Wolof. It would be very easy for the Senegalese to get rid of that colonial language.
ZACK CAN WE ORGANISE AFRICA SUMMIT FOR ORDINARY AFRICAN CAN ATTEND WHERE WE WILL EXPLORE OUR CULTURES AND ALL THAT ARE OPSTACLES IN OUR CONTINENT AMANDLA.
When you visit Spain, they speak Spanish, To Italy, they speak Italian, To China, they speak Chinese, To France, they speak french, To England, they speak English, To Germany, they speak German, To Russia, they speak Russian, To Turkiye, they speak Turkish, To Africa, they speak English, French, German, Spanish, etc. This is very sad. When you visit Africa, we expect to speak and hear the native African languages spoken. It's the only continent that doesn't embrace their mother tongue or traditions. I celebrate Senegal and AES for rejecting European languages and re-adopting their countries native languages. That's the way it should be. 👌🏾🫶🏽👍🏽
I love this video I love it I know very much what your saying when I was lil in Dominican Republic I always felt indigenous I knew something within me was missing into the mirror constantly saying where I get my features something was missing I found out not so long ago that I have in taino blood in me and African blood in me I have a lot of Nigeria in me I also have Middle Eastern in me spiritually my mom used to tell me then when I get older I was going to understand a lot of things I always felt like I had to cover my hair when I was dedicating my life to God my mom always said to me that she never felt more comfortable than a in a Pentecostal church that prays like Muslims I always felt the ancestors were trying to tell us who we were
When individuals lack education and suffer from low self-esteem, it can lead to a cycle where future generations are deprived of the knowledge and confidence necessary to break free from ignorance. This cycle can perpetuate a legacy of limited opportunities, stifled potential, and a narrow worldview, ultimately hindering progress and development for both individuals and their communities. Empowering education and fostering self-worth are essential to breaking this chain and building a more informed, resilient, and empowered generation. This new, young government deserves applause and a standing ovation for its confidence.
I am from the diaspora. It has always urked my soul from a child that whatever the language of my Ancestors has been stripped from me and my family going forward. I currently live between chechs and polish who have their own language. They could be cursing me everyday. I resent being denied my own language and loss of family. The west have terrible judgements coming upon them‼️
Now Africa 🌍 is throwing away the throwover and the blanket 👏👏👏👏👏 It's time to Pursue, Overtake and Recover!!👊👊🤛🤜. Where there is a will there is a way, with technology, all learning materials to be produced in vernacular can be done in no time! I love the way you mimic the DooDooDooDoo , DooDooDooDoo!!!😅😅 don't stop.
Let France put my native language of Bangwa as an official language in France . Wait what? Exactly!!! Why is French even ever considered an official language in an African country?
That's dope for Senegal. All that you said is the remnants of colonialism that African countries haven't shook off yet. I'm African-American and I hope when I hit the ground on the continent that they make a means of making Swahili a continental language for all Africans. It would be a fantastic way to connect all regions under one language. That way regardless of region, the people can all understand each other.
Boy Zack you just through a neutron bomb at the colonized mentality. This is the main thing that is holding us back. African Americans and Caribbeans are also colonized but is it is shocking and deeply disappointing to us that our African brothers are where we were 200 years ago. Keep swinging off on the off-code mentality brotha you give us hope!
3:34 "... Teaching that would have been in a mother tongue would make it possible to avoid years of delay in acquisition of knowledge ..." I couldn't agree more. A level 400 student in a university was struggling to understand some stuff for two years. I explained it to him in his native tongue within 10 minutes and he understood it instantly. He said when he was in level 200 he went to the library and read the books several times but couldn't understand. This is just one of the examples among the dozens of examples I have from pre-schools to university students to prove the statement above is 100% true. A professor in Ghana, Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, has been advocating for this same thing for more than a decade but I know people will never agree to it.
They always say this but it won't work... learning Wolof in school is fine of course but it's only spoken in 2 countries... inthe WORLD! lol! Let's be honest folks, you have to have an official language that more than just your aunties and cousins speak! MDR
KMT solved the problem by developing the Medu Neter a language and writing system,that they were told to never teach a non African. That's why it was "lost" but not really. It's just deep underground.
Outstanding achievement, to the Senegal president For dismissed, of the French language However, I hope the rest of the Africa county's, follow suit ASAP With God blessings
