Pan-Africanists Unite Under a Common African Language... Should We?

[QuintessentialBM]

Title says it all... Share your thoughts.......

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

As horrible as it may sound, I think English may be the only language that can do this. Not to say we can't possibly develop a language but do you realize how many languages there are on the continent not to mention there may be feelings of pride when it comes to this. English would be neutral as its not native to Africa and its the most widely spoken language. There should be strong efforts to preserve African languages and dialects both in the continent and diaspora tho.

 

[theworldismine13]

Yeah, English

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/do-you-speak-english.174731/

 

[Kritic]

it can only be french or english.
african or european languages were all the same or very close together but distance and lack of communication with each other made them sound completely different over time.
now majority of the african countries speak english or french so it only makes sense this is what they use to communicate. we could include chinese in there too.

 

[QuintessentialBM]

I say this because a bunch people look sideways at African descendants of the western hemisphere can't speak and/or don't want to learn an African language but can speak European/Asian languages. Languages like Spanish, Portuguese, French and English have been in the Americas since the late 15th century. That shouldn't be an excuse but it's much easier when you have access to information on how to speak and people to practice speaking with.

I've been called a self-hater because of the fact that have more familiarity with romance languages than African ones.

 

[2Quik4UHoes]

I say this because a bunch people look sideways at African descendants of the western hemisphere can't speak and/or don't want to learn an African language but can speak European/Asian languages. Languages like Spanish, Portuguese, French and English have been in the Americas since the late 15th century. That shouldn't be an excuse but it's much easier when you have access to information on how to speak and people to practice speaking with.

I've been called a self-hater because of the fact that have more familiarity with romance languages than African ones.

It goes both ways, many Africans are multi-lingual so sometimes they look at it as laziness on our part to not learn some African languages.

 

[Kritic]

I say this because a bunch people look sideways at African descendants of the western hemisphere can't speak and/or don't want to learn an African language but can speak European/Asian languages. Languages like Spanish, Portuguese, French and English have been in the Americas since the late 15th century. That shouldn't be an excuse but it's much easier when you have access to information on how to speak and people to practice speaking with.

I've been called a self-hater because of the fact that have more familiarity with romance languages than African ones.

call swahili to swaghili and see all niccas jump on it.
all just depends how africans rock it.

promote panafricanism.

 

[newarkhiphop]

what

 

[Dada]

Not necessarily one but there are several languages that are spoken over very wide ranges, so knowing one would be great and you could communicate with everyone in the diaspora and on the continent who speak that language. I'd say: A Manding language such as Dyula/Bambara/Mandinka..which are mutually intelligible to some degree, Swahili or Lingala..there's some overlap here, Hausa, and/or Wolof. I've studied all to some degree and there's some "give" with each (different versions spoken by native speakers vs. that spoken by 2/3/4th language speakers or those in the big cities) because they're so widespread. There's simplified Hausa, city Wolof, simplified Swahili (less grammatical), Kinshasa/Brazza Lingala, etc.

I mention these because some don't believe they are capable of learning a 2nd language and these simpler versions already exist.

 

[newarkhiphop]

just to entertain this thread, what would be the benefits of trying to achieve something like this?

 

[Blackking]

well... i speak Spanish due to having to communicate w my sons...

But English is the business language and universal language so - I would guess that would be more proficient for us than any other language.




I would say fukk all that... those Africans need to focus on controlling their resources. They don't have time for this BS before that.

We need to work on increasing our excellence and unity within the US - we don't have time for this shyt before that.

 

[Chris.B]

lol now the militants who criticize me for following the "religion of the oppressor" want to unite under the language of the oppressor?

 

[QuintessentialBM]

just to entertain this thread, what would be the benefits of trying to achieve something like this?

Promotion of pan-Africanism
Preservation of African language(s) in motherland
Privacy(that you don't get when you speak European languages)

 

[newarkhiphop]

Promotion of pan-Africanism
Preservation of African language(s) in motherland
Privacy(that you don't get when you speak European languages)

wouldn't other non-pan african people just learn the language?

 

[QuintessentialBM]

wouldn't other non-pan african people just learn the language?

Yeah.... Anyone could, but would they be willing to????? How many people would go out of their way to learn as supposed to using English as the language and 3/4 of the Earth knowing what's going on in Africa? Government agencies that are paid to know... small minority that can be dealt with if the individual African countries made a concerted effort to keep people out of our business.