On Wed, 23 Feb 2005, Delirium wrote:
I'd question that: I think Africa is
"best served" by whatever content
the most people can read, which is likely to be English. Even expanding
to say, four languages, the best choices are likely to be English,
French, Arabic, and Swahili (although I can't find very good statistics
on this).
I would agree with your statement, and choice of languages. One might
throw Portuguese in there, but that is really only Angola and
Mozambique.
Also Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde
Equatorial Guinea is a former Spanish colony, but I can't be sure of the
status of Spanish in Western Sahara. Amharic is unusual among
sub-Saharan languages in that it also has a long written tradition.
Ec