{"id":8300,"date":"2023-12-18T11:39:14","date_gmt":"2023-12-18T11:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=8300"},"modified":"2023-12-18T11:39:14","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T11:39:14","slug":"africans-are-changing-french-one-joke-rap-and-book-at-a-time-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2023\/12\/18\/africans-are-changing-french-one-joke-rap-and-book-at-a-time-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Africans Are Changing French \u2014 One Joke, Rap and Book at a Time (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Agencies – Sudan Events<\/strong><\/p>\n

African countries where French is spoken by more than 10 percent of the population.
\nAccording to the New York Times, nearly half of the countries in Africa were at one time French colonies or protectorates, and most of them use French as their official language.
\nBut France\u00a0has faced\u00a0growing resentment\u00a0in recent years in many of these countries for both its\u00a0colonial legacy and continuing influence.
\nSome countries have evicted French ambassadors and troops, while others target the French language itself. Some West African novelists write in local languages as an act of artistic resistance.
\nThe ruling junta in Mali has stripped French of its official status, and a similar move is underway in Burkina Faso.
\nYouth on Yoff Beach in Dakar, Senegal, once a French colony. The youth population in Africa is surging, and by 2060, demographers say, 85 % of French speakers will live on the continent.
\nThe backlash has not gone unnoticed in France, where the evolution of French provokes debate, if not angst, among some intellectuals. President Emmanuel Macron of France said in a\u00a02019 speech: \u201cFrance must take pride in being essentially one country among others that learns, speaks, writes in French.\u201d
\nThe language laboratory:<\/p>\n

In the sprawling Adjam\u00e9 market in Abidjan, there are thousands of small stalls selling electronics, clothes, counterfeit medicine and food. The market is a perfect laboratory in which to study Nouchi, a slang once crafted by petty criminals, but which has taken over the country in under four decades.
\nSome former members of Abidjan\u2019s gangs, who helped invent Nouchi, now work as guards patrolling the market\u2019s alleys, where \u201cjassa men\u201d \u2014 young hustlers \u2014 sell goods to make ends meet. It is here that new expressions are born and die every day.
\n\u201cThey\u2019re going to hit you,\u201d the owner said in French, which alarmed me until they explained that the French verb for \u201chit,\u201d frapper, had the opposite meaning there: Those jassa men would treat us well \u2014 which they did, throwing out dozens of words and expressions unknown to me in a few minutes.
\nKadi frantically scribbled down new words on a notepad, saying repeatedly, \u201cOne more for the dictionary.\u201d<\/p>\n

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