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What are the factors which have conspired to place English in the position of national language in many parts of Africa? Quite simply the reason is that these nations were created in the first place by the intervention of the British, which, I hasten to add, is not saying that the peoples comprising these nations were invented by the British. Those of us who have inherited the English language may go on resenting it because it came as part of a package deal which included many other items of doubtful value and the positive atrocity of racial arrogance and prejudice. But let us not, in rejecting the evil, throw out the good with it. This is my thinking on the importance of the world language which history has forced down our throats.
English becomes a national language in many African countries because of the British intervention in the continent.