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10/01/2004:

"Launching Zimbabwe's Fourth Chimurenga"

IN STRUGGLE AGAINST LINGUISTIC IMPERIALISM

The struggles waged in Africa are not about the past but they contain the solutions to the ideology crises of the African world. These struggles have been necessitated by the fact that there is a scramble for Africa going on, not for material wealth (though that still continues) but for the African culture, way of life, spiritually and languages.

After the successful undertaking of the agrarian revolution in Zimbabwe, the war is not over, there is need to restore the languages to the people. Zimbabweans must at the deepest possible level fight to curb linguistic imperialism and seek out to regain and rejuvenate their languages in the same manner the late Julius Mwalimu Nyerere launched a linguistic revolution in Tanzania.

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