THE CAPITALIST NIGER
the field with dangerous animals; they gave us their languages – English, French, Spanish, Portuguese.
These languages have become lingua franca for most of the world. In fact, it has been predicted that the
languages of the world would disappear in the next 25 years, with English being the medium of
communication. Could I literally communicate what I am saying in this book in my language of Igbo?
Decidely no. (Ajuju mna aju wu new ike ikwu ihenile mna ikwu na akwukwo nka n’ede naokwu Igbo.
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Agam aza ajuju wee si mba). Even the alphabets in constructing our own languages were given to us by
Caucasians.
They eliminated the need for the town crier, or spending several days to walk a short distance or long
distance, when they gave us the horse-drawn buggy, which later became the forerunner of the
automobile
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