African Languages And The Challenges Of Globalization

Abstract

This paper employs the mid-point strategic view in discussing the effects of globalization in African Languages. Here globalization is seen as a process of change, full of opportunities and also challenges that have to be skilfully handled, clearly harnessed and managed for positive and all around human development. Globalization, it is argued, has come to stay. From all indications, the English language is comfortably and unchallengeably the lingua franca to the global village. This already places other languages including, including African languages, at a disadvantage. The unfavourable position of African languages in the global village and the challenges this poses to the entire continent forms the nucleus of this paper.