ABSTRACT
The issue before people, namely the use of African languages in education, is of special interest in the context of Africa's development. It is of special interest because Africa today is witnessing an inevitable revolution whose objective is to liberate Africans from the enemies of mankind: ignorance, disease, poverty. The question of language in education is perhaps not a major issue in Europe and America because, if there exist conflicts on the use of language in education, they are not on which language should be employed, but on which version of the dominant language should be used in each respective country. The pre-independence system of education created small elitist groups. The presence of these groups during the pre-independence period in the history of Africa was less questioned simply because the elite were there to serve the masters and the affairs of the imperial government.
