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Peer reviewedBamgbose, Ayo – Journal of Negro Education, 1983
Notwithstanding the barriers posed by multiplicity of languages, inherited colonial policies, and negative state and citizen attitudes, West African experience supports a policy of using the mother tongue rather than a foreign language as the medium of instruction in schools at all levels. (Author/MJL)
Descriptors: Colonialism, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Higher Education
