Why has the French language made a deeper inroads in Africa than English?

are there still ppl left in namibia? I tought you fuckers killed them all

France is a more centralistic country, the Uk just cares about money

In Namibia
As a mother tongue only the ~20.000 germans that live there but it is the most common secondary language

yes we killed them all, you want some reparations with that?
I heard you were very humane in East Africa, did the Ethiopians enjoy the poison gas?

Because france tried( and succeeded) changing the culture of the countries they colonized...
And in doing that, they erased much of their history, including burning archives (i think) and destroying old educational systems which led to a country like algeria to have its literacy rate decrease drastically from 40% in 1830 to a mere 15% after the end of the french rule and """"""enlightment"""""" that included killing hundread of thousands (if not a million) on top of destroying their culture.

you should pay reparations to italy for selling Ethiopia illegal dum dum bullets, we just retaliated

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those are not natives, but ugly g*rman parasites

suck my cock

Isn’t the Arabization process working in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia?

God i can't wait to join my african brothers in whiping out those german peaceful farmers

you were supposed to speak Italian, but you were cucked by the French, I'm sorry

It worked, now people are steadily returning to their old roots.
At least we got very nice parts of the italian culture from the dozens of thousands of italian immigrants that came to tunisia during the french rule.

but now people are steadily returning to their old roots(the berber/amazigh identity).***

Why was Ethiopia never colonized?
And when the state of Africa is the white mans fault, then why is Ethiopia still a shithole and not literally Wakanda?

I'm sure he would've loved to speak the language of fellow brownies

>during the french rule.
here were hundred of thousands of them before the French rule

1. Because they were Christian and made friends with European powers
2. Communism

Mussolini conquered Ethiopia in 1935, actually.

Yeah I was gonna ask which one

I heard that standard Arabic is just as foreign as french there.

because it was the only real african country and it would have need a real war to conquer it, that happened

Because french is a nigger tier language

No, Both are not really that foreign, arabic is used in everything formal and french in educational system and in formal matters too.
But i can write in french better than in arabic i think.

And "we" still managed to make Tunisia ours pretty impressive desu

Because the French are evil and were basically scheming to replace the natives of their colonies with Frenchmen. Destroying their languages was one part of that effort.

thank you, so now they all want to go to france

South Africa is probably the most Anglo country in Africa but only 10% of the population speaks it as a first language and only 60% know it at all

Now france is ours, us and our african brothers hhhhhhhhhh faggot

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Don’t Moroccans move more to spain, Italy and the Netherlands nowadays than France?

Allf of africa will move to all of europe.

UK didnt get involved with the natives as much as the french did, the continued french activity in the region means theres more of a reason for them to learn the language.

Based and checked.

It really hurt my soul when I realized we will have to slaughter them.

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You’d think with globalization that would have made English even MORE popular amongst the former British colonies.

I’ve had friends go on missions in Uganda and Kenya who’ve said that English teachers are in demand, but I would’ve thought everyone knew it already

Slaughter is a big word and it has no place in a modern world. we are just replacing them slowly peacefully, unlike them savages who genocide people.

Menshallah!

Don’t all the whites there speak English?

Thank you based italians for letting us pass through.

the only economic powerhouse in subsaharan africa is south africa and they speak english pretty well

Algerians move to France
Moroccans move to Spain/Italy/Belgium/Netherlands

Different colonial model, from as far as I know. The French were going full "mission civilisatrice" which basically meant bringing France to Africa. The British on the other hand were more willing to cooperate with local lords and had a more loose touch, with some exceptions here and there (especially closer to the southern half). Anglo-Egyptian Sudan is probably the best example of this.

For those of you who actually want to learn about this rather than keep up the nationalistic shitposting, the BBC treats the differences between the French and British governing styles in Africa quite succinctly.
bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/features/storyofafrica/14chapter2.shtml

Oh, who am I kidding?
>Oi mate, u got a loicense fer that colony
>France >White

why didnt the netherlands have no african colonies but belgium did?

I thought the whole “White Man Burden’s” thing that was going on in Victorian england was a civilizing mission?

We did though, we sold Ghana to the British in exchange for money and the guarantee that they wouldn't mess with Indonesia. Also, actually look up the story of the Congo Free State. The only reason Belgium even got a slice of the pie (and debatably the most profitable slice of 'em all) is because Leopold was playing the entire concert of Europe like a fiddle.

>why didnt the netherlands have no african colonies but belgium did?

but they did...south africa was first colonized by the dutch before the british came

>even got a slice of the pie

I can imagine how cringe-worthy you sound overusing idioms in your gay Dutch accent.

Thank you for your contribution to the thread, it's greatly appreciated.

it's easier to spread your language when you racemix

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Annnnnnnnnnnd France is 20% african.
Thank you grandpa :)

You have proofs of your claims others than being a retard sandnigg?

Just letting you know bro. You sound like a faggot.

I also suspect you're the same Dutch retard from the AfD thread yesterday who basically said, "hurrr durrr, the AfD won't grow in more popularity because Wilders' popularity didn't grow in my country."

>I also suspect you're the same Dutch retard from the AfD thread yesterday
...because I used a common English idiom?

Is France’s ex African colonies basically Latin America at this point, where French is becoming so dominant that the native languages die out?

Except for the USA, Canada, australia and New Zealand, the other ex British colonies still have their native tongues spoken by millions

Don't blame me lad, you haven't seen the booties I've done.

Imagine being such a huge french faggot that you can't google search
education.stateuniversity.com/pages/19/Algeria-HISTORY-BACKGROUND.html

Nigeria is the best African country though

They had the entire Indonesia to manage.

French is the official language of business and government in Francophone Africa similar to how German was the language of business and government in Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages and early modern era. Of course people still speak indigenous languages for everyday life.

>France brought civilization instead
And we failed. We can't civilize bonobos.

The French were more insistent on natives adopting French customs. Brits didn't gaf, just there for the clay. Also, just look at the map. All of the French colonies are conjoined, the British ones are all over the place. And the Belgian parts are all French-speaking as well.

They don't. It's just educated Indians that do.

Didn’t the Brits send a bunch of missionaries as well?

They didn't "send" them, they just went. And protestant missionaries were nowhere near as aggressive as Catholic ones.

>communism
Ethiopia hasn't been relevant in the world struggle for hegemony since like the middle ages. It was shithole for hundreds of years and still is.

At least France wasn’t Spain. Spain would have made Africa 100% spanish speaking

Repulsive

this, france tried harder to frenchify the country, whereas the english always adopted a more laissez-faire attitude

I don't remember the exact percentages but in India only around 15% speak English (which is lower than all Western European countries) while over 50% speaks Hindi

only because Spanish is already a primitive-tier language

afrobarometer.org/publications/wp162-language-education-and-citizenship-in-africa

thick fucking yank read a book

who cares
all the other countries will have to learn english eventuallu

i can ever understand shit when i call the helpdesk.

Who told you that? Egyptians, Nigerians, Ghanians and Kenyans still use English.

...

> France
> Bringing civilization

Haiti the best example of French colonization

no, not really
you can't fight the internal migrations of africa
the french went too far (more so than the spaniards ever did) and yet their impact only remains because france injects money to keep it that way. And even then, they are losing ground

everytime a part of subsaharan africa becomes ever slightly prosperous, it gets swarmed by migrations from their neighbours, and their neighbours' neighbours too.
Suddenly all measures of human development pummel, dominant language becomes plurality (or even minority), main cultural groups get displaced and power crumbles.
nigeria, the guineas, ethiopia, the whole southern african region, etc.. all got the touch of death from weak border control and foreign meedling

because french is a beautiful language unlike engl*sh

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t.harki

So basically you're saying that Africa is in a never ending loop of crapness?

>i can't like a certain language

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STFU YOU FUCKING HARKI TRAITOR

cuck

>*Yank walks into the thread*

Americans can get mad at anything it seems.

oi m8, don't you got a kangaroo to fuck?

Embarrassing

not as embarrassing as your inability to pronounce English words

Nigeria has a bigger GDP and GDP (PPP) than South Africa

don't rack your brain too hard

So protect your borders