Tag Archives: Languages

If you could choose your coloniser

From Joshua Keating of FP: Taken together, the moral of these studies could be that colonalism isn’t great for a country’s future political and economic wellbeing, but if a country is going to be colonized, they’re better off with the British than the French. Of course, the ideal would be not to be colonised at… Read More »

Yoruba and English, Yoruba and French

It is always interesting to speak Yoruba with Beninese Yoruba speakers. I – like most Nigerian Yoruba speakers – don’t speak Yoruba without code-mixing, and the other language in the mélange is almost always English. Therefore, when I am speaking with a Beninese Yoruba speaker, I am very careful not to add in English words.… Read More »