28B – Adewale Sobowale

28b, how can I ever forget you? Was it not in you I spent childhood? I can still remember the adults drinking lager when I was a toddler. Mind you, it would be after the day’s work. Olori or Baba or Baba Wa was so generous. He never discriminated. I can remember Luke, the Igbo…

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Africa’s mother tongues are finding new life as youth connect with roots and relatives

A television game show in Nigeria’s commercial hub of Lagos has an unforgiving rule: Speak English and you lose. For a US-born millennial in the audience and a student of her parents’ mother tongue, the high-stakes setting is a perfect classroom. The Associated Press reports that a 15-year-old Canadian speaks to a teacher about 13,000 kilometres away in…

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