Mali drops French as its official language

[Bonk]

Niger's government has just been removed from power in a military coup. With that, France's remaining ally in the Sahel is gone too.

French influence is totally finished in Africa.

Is it now official? I’m reading mixed messages about the military & national guards not joining the coup.

Interestingly, the western NGOs Mali kicked out just set up shop in Niger.

Everything is confusing right now & it seems Islamists are also expanding all over the Sahel.

What the hell is going on? Can you shed more light on it?

 

[GreenGhxst]

most Malians don't and have never spoken french or any colonial language like India and their english worshipping

How do you know, if you don't live there?

 

[Blessings]

definitely a start

 

[3rdWorld]

fukk France, French, French fries, PSG, The French Open, Macron, Sarkozy and all things French.

 

[Premeditated]

How do you know, if you don't live there?

because I have malian kins for one
two, bambara is the most spoken language, then it's a tie between fula and french after

same thing as senegal, most senegalese speak wolof instead of french. only 20 percent of people in the capital it self speak french as their first language

now, in Ivory Coast and Benin they speak it first, loud and proud. but I don't see that any different than Ghanaians speaking english or nigerian pidgin

 

[MischievousMonkey]

I love how this type of shyt clearly pisses certain crowds off

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

because I have malian kins for one
two, bambara is the most spoken language, then it's a tie between fula and french after

same thing as senegal, most senegalese speak wolof instead of french. only 20 percent of people in the capital it self speak french as their first language

now, in Ivory Coast and Benin they speak it first, loud and proud. but I don't see that any different than Ghanaians speaking english or nigerian pidgin

Ghana and Nigeria only speak English as a trade language/Lingua franca that everyone can understand. We Still always speak our native languages first whenever we get the chance.

 

[get these nets]

04/09/25

Niger dumps French, adopts Hausa as national language​

Niger’s military-led government has declared Hausa as the country’s new national language, replacing French, in another decisive step away from its former colonial power, France.

“The national language is Hausa” while “the working languages are English and French,” the junta stated in a new charter published on March 31 in a special edition of the government’s official journal.

Hausa is Niger’s most widely spoken language, particularly prevalent in the regions of Zinder, Maradi, and Tahoua.

The language is understood and spoken by a large portion of the population in the country of 26 million.
By contrast, French is spoken by only about 13 per cent of Nigeriens — roughly three million people.

According to the new charter, nine other local languages, including Zarma-Songhay, Fula, Kanuri, Gourmanche, and Arabic, will now be officially recognised as “the spoken languages of Niger.”

The charter emerged from a national conference held in February, which bolstered the ruling junta’s authority and granted its leader, General Abdourahamane Tiani, the mandate to remain in power for the next five years.

Since seizing power in a July 2023 coup that ousted civilian president Mohamed Bazoum, Niger’s ruling junta has cut diplomatic ties with Paris, expelled French troops, and renamed streets and landmarks that once carried French names.

This latest move aligns Niger with neighbouring military regimes in Mali and Burkina Faso — also former French colonies — who have similarly distanced themselves from France and withdrawn from the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), a post-colonial body similar to the Commonwealth.