The present study investigates on the issues that African people are facing up in the process of revitalizing and adopting a common language in Africa since 1974 to the present time. The aim is to show how we can adopt or revitalize any language in Africa today for official, educational and interaction. Through the historical approach, the study findings reveal that since the Sixth Pan-African Congress (1974) until today, the Africans are unable to choose, adopt, revitalize or promote the teaching of one African language all over Africa. This because the African society is much more influenced by European imposed languages; and those imposed languages are considered as sources of division among the people of Africa. As a result, we notice disagreements, the lack of methods and initiatives between Africans as regards the adoption or revitalization of an African language across the continent. So, this study recommends that the African people must avoid showing their disagreements and indifferences concerning the adoption or the revitalization of an African language all over Africa, because it is not yet late for us to adopt or revitalize a language in Africa today. We must only have a common vision based on a common goal of saving our cultural heritage, because if we lose our African languages, we will also lose our cultural values.
The present study investigates on the issues that African people are facing up in the process of revitalizing and adopting a common language in Africa since 1974 to the present time. The aim is to show how we can adopt or revitalize any language in Africa today for official, educational and interaction. Through the historical approach, the study findings reveal that since the Sixth Pan-African Congress (1974) until today, the Africans are unable to choose, adopt, revitalize or promote the teaching of one African language all over Africa. This because the African society is much more influenced by European imposed languages; and those imposed languages are considered as sources of division among the people of Africa. As a result, we notice disagreements, the lack of methods and initiatives between Africans as regards the adoption or revitalization of an African language across the continent. So, this study recommends that the African people must avoid showing their disagreements and indifferences concerning the adoption or the revitalization of an African language all over Africa, because it is not yet late for us to adopt or revitalize a language in Africa today. We must only have a common vision based on a common goal of saving our cultural heritage, because if we lose our African languages, we will also lose our cultural values.