A Kenyan president’s misstep, and speaking English badly

Why, more than 50 years after most countries in sub-Saharan Africa got their independence, do almost all of them still teach the language of their former colonial ruler in their schools?
Kenya’s President William Ruto stepped in hot water at a recent event when he made a joke about Nigerian-accented English, writes Gwynne Dyer.

LONDON, U.K.— It is a matter of chronic surprise that politicians, otherwise well-trained in saying just the right thing for the audience they are addressing, forget that whatever they say can be heard everywhere. Right away. By anybody who cares to listen, including journ...

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