Pat Hall wrote:
...is there something else going on here - perhaps the language policies
of Nigeria have led to the education system favouring English?
In response to Pat, Europeans carved up Africa without seriously
integrating the polarizational issue of tribe and hence culture. Let us
not
Regarding intermediaries, and the use of written English amongst Yoruba
speaking people, Pat Hall asked me to explain more about the situation
in Oke-Ogun:
Pam, is there something else going on here - perhaps the language
policies of Nigeria have led to the education system favouring English?
Pat Hall's questions for Pam McLean open up a whole range of issues
regarding the intersection of sociolinguistics, and language and
education policies with ICT policy that are pertinent to the discussion
but probably need to be explored in depth elsewhere. I'll let Pam reply
on the particular
I read Raphael Marambii's post with interest, in particular:
Although cryptography is complicated, we should not under-estimate the
intelligence of people to quickly grasp the basic concepts (snip) It
would be great fun and very empowering to teach villagers about ciphers
and the art of
On the issue of intermediaries, while acknowledging the very valid
concerns pointed out by Don Osborne, I'd just like to add that some work
has been done to try and get around some of these problems. The voices
in their hands project by a Philips Researcher, Paul Rankin
Regarding the messages of Herman Wasserman and Cliff Missen, this is
interesting but there is a danger I think in any strategy that seeks to
rely on intermediaries. Cliff uses the word griot but in fact it may
be more like marabout or priest (although these latter analogies are
not perfect either)
