Cameroon is commemorating International Mother Language Day, February 21, by launching what it calls an ambitious program to save its endangered national languages. The central African state has ...

Analysis - Cameroon is commemorating International Mother Language Day, February 21, by launching what it calls an ambitious program to save its endangered national languages.

As of 2022, Nigeria accounted for around a quarter of the total languages spoken in Africa with 520. According to the map, the most popular languages spoken there are Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo.

Since October 2017, Cameroon has been engulfed by a deadly conflict.The conflict is rooted in the colonisation of Cameroon by both the French and British governments – and the two languages that ...