While oil-producing Gabon sees English as a way to better prepare its workforce, Ousmane Paye, special assistant to the Secretary General of the Francophone International Organization, said African nations must continue speaking and promoting French, so that it too is seen as a language of the marketplace.
“We must work on this a lot. We must work so that the French language is not something to be seen on the page, but also to be used. Not just the language of literature, poetry, philosophy, must also be a language of economy, of science and technology,” said Paye.
In 2009, Rwanda also made the switch from English to French. According to Gabon’s presidential spokesperson, the country will not abandon French, but will ensure that English is taught in first grade at schools and adults who want to learn the language will have access to classes.
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