I can't fault you for that because it's bad out here fr.This is why I have such an aversion to Angola. When I visit a country on the Continent, I wanna hear everything Afrikan, names and languages included. Even the DRC, although French was everywhere in Kinshasa, there are places were it's only Lingala and depending who's speaking to each other, they would switching back and forth between languages. These is cultural power isn't it? I can make you hate your own cultural names, religions and languages and make you follow mine. I'm of the opinion to drop ALL former colonial languages and names. How's he worst that can happen? The literacy rates are already low, we're the poorest and taking the names, religions and languages doesn't stop them from discriminating against us, right?
If anything, this crazy assimilation wave we got ourselves in at the cost of our own cultural identity, just made assimilation of the ills of western civilization happen even faster.
I kid you not, when we were kids, some teachers tried to institute learning 2-4 (just as a starting project, there's 30+ languages in Angola) mother tongues for the elementary school kids around the capital. Parents around the country threatened to take their kids out of school for this and the project was abolished. It was a bizarre thing to witness. We were kids, so we didn't know any better. But thinking back, that should've been alarming AF nationwide, but it wasn't.
And it's crazy how just knowing one language can change a man so much. I studied with some zambians in 2009 and they were bewildered that I didn't know a single mother tongue. It just couldn't compute in their brains. Plus it felt lonesome a bit watching/hearing their bond. Very strong friendship I built with those people though. And part of the loneliness in seeing them was understanding that we were deprived of that.