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 ...

France’s President Emmanuel Macron (R) and Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari. Photo by Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images Africa is home to the largest number of French speakers in the world – 120 ...

DAKAR – For decades Senegal, a former French colony in West Africa, has been touted as the bastion of the French language in the region. Leopold Sedar Senghor, the country’s first president and a poet ...

French now ranks ahead of Arabic as the fourth most widely spoken language in the world, according to a report published this week ahead of Friday's international day of the French language. With 396 ...

Due to its colonial past with France, Togo adopted French as its official language in 1960, a fact enshrined in Article 3 of the country's constitution. But what place does French now have in Togo’s ...

France is facing deep anticolonial resentment across Africa, but has found a partner in Rwanda, which is embracing French influence despite years of acrimony. By Abdi Latif Dahir Photographs by ...

Every year on 20 March, the Francophone world celebrates the International Day of La Francophonie, which is also French Language Day at the United Nations. This date marks the birth of the ...

With 396 million speakers, French is one of the now the fourth most widely spoken language. On 20 March, International Francophonie Day is also a celebration of young people, as more than half of ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — For decades Senegal, a ...