For this lack of vital techniques is the very definition of underdevelopment in African and other Third World societies. In a word, history must help us to make and deploy all the techniques that we are now lacking. To achieve our objective social goals as soon as can be, we must take the trouble to force the pace of history. No, I do not at all suggest that African and other Third World states should drop English. Thus all West African, South-eastern Asian and other Third World states now make every effort to teach both English and French at every level of education.

Source: Daily Nation May 11, 2019 21:33 UTC