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 Re - “Best of luck to

and Mali.”

Amen to your prayers, although kicking against the teeth of French Assimilation Policy by outlawing the French Language in Mali is going to be a little steep and would be likewise even in Haiti, not to mention the petty cultural and nouveau riche bourgeoisie uncle toms in successful assimilé countries such as Senghor’s Senegal. It was bad enough back in Sierra Leone where we had first a Belgian (A.W. Rogers) and then Mr. White (a French Canadian) as our French teachers. Rogers didn’t like me because I made life impossible for him whilst our class studied André Gide’s La Porte étroite for our “A” levels…. But that’s another story...

This should interest you: US Secretary of State holds virtual talks with two African leaders (from Pan African Television)

As to your differences with Ken in reading and comprehension when it comes to French – the second most dominant language in post-colonial Africa, similar differences occur with regard to various translations of the Hebrew Bible often quoted in the New Testament (so called) – and the various translations of Aramaic, the language that Jesus spoke. It’s a problem being taken up by one Dr. Eli Lizorkin-Eyzenberg and in “ Understanding the Difficult words of Jesus”

When God or God’s ambassadors speak we must do our best to understand Him (or Her) and them...

 Re - You “not aware of Mali and others outlawing French.”

Thank God, for this! Otherwise I would have continued spreading the fake news, all based on this item from our Pan- African Brother from Ghana: Mali cuts ties with France, orders French troops to exit Mali, ends use of French language, to which he added, “It’s now official!”

The “ends use of French Language” the headline did not mean to proclaim that French had merely been degraded from official language to unofficial language. And how impractical. (I’m thinking of official correspondence, not the treasure libraries in Timbuktu.

I don’t think that the French Government and the Academie Francaise are going to forgive Mali’s current military leaders for this travesty/insubordination; if anything, the French Government is going to do their best to replace Mali’s current military leadership by a new leadership that will restore French as the official language of Mali.

Whatever next! Should those upstart military men have their way they’ll probably want to inspire the rest of Francophone Africa & the Caribbean to move their Central Bank from Paris to Mansa Musa’s new economic headquarters in the Bamako of the modern Mali Empire and to stop paying taxes and protection money to France…

Imagine if some past Military leader of Nigeria ( e.g. Buhari, Babangida, Abacha, Obasanjo) had decreed that Her Majesty’s English should cease to be the Official Language of the Federal Republic of Nigeria! There would have been no deafening silence from Nigeria’s Anglophile elites , and needless to add that, that Military ruler’s despotism would have been short-lived as Nigeria's Anglophiles would have roared into action in cahoots with other faithful members of The Commonwealth ( The new name for the former British Empire), the Ministry of International Cooperation ( the latest name for the Old Colonial Office) , the British Council, the BBC, London Review of Books, Oxford, Cambridge, and other cultural organisations of that kind, would have worked day and night to bring that regime down as speedily as possible.

By the way, I notice that you are becoming more and more radical. Some would say more hostile, more aggressive...some would say more progressive...