The UNESCO newsletter Education Today, No. 2 (July-Sept. 2002), focused on "Literacy? Yes. But when?" and included the following mention of multiple language use in education in part of the Congo (Kinshasa; ex-Zaire): "Small-scale efforts can often show the way forward, says UNESCO consultant Clinton Robinson. In an area where the school system hardly functions in the Democratic Republic of Congo, volunteers teach in the local language, Ngbaka, through which they introduce Lingala, the national language, and French. 'It has continued despite the war because it�s run by local people, adapted to their needs, at low cost,' says Robinson."
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