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Mali demotes French, language of its former colonizer, in symbolic move

Published on: Thursday 03 August 2023

Each time Chérif Keïta, a professor at Carleton College in Minnesota, lands in his native Mali and enters a taxi, he hears fewer radio hosts speaking French. Some commentators mix French with ...

News source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/03/mali-french-new-constitution/

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Mali demotes French, language of its former colonizer, in symbolic move