Honourable Minister, the challenge before your ministry is clear: not to simplify Nigeria by erasing its tongues, but to imagine a modernity capacious enough to cultivate them. The wealth of this nation lies not only in oil or minerals, it’s in the hundreds of languages that name our rivers, mountains, stars and dreams, that hold our indigenous knowledge systems and ways of being. I do not pretend that this is an easy task. Nevertheless, your responsibility is not to retreat…
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