More recently, Mali, Burkina Faso, and Niger moved French to the background and made local languages like Hausa and Bambara official. Rwanda switched from French to English to better connect with the ...

Tanzania’s colonial language was English since they were colonised by the British. However, after independence in 1961, Tanzania adopted Swahili as the national language, since they were more Swahili ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Saturday making English the official language of the United States — the first time in the country’s history that it will have a federally ...