English is the proper language,” but Kolade interrupted “If English is proper, why is my language not proper?”
She replied, “no one is saying you shouldn’t be proud of your language, it is not just proper to speak ‘Yoruba’ in school. His mother was taken back with the question not until her son narrated the whole experience of what happened in his new school. Kolade asked his mother “Mummy, why can’t I speak our language in school?” His mother noticed the sad look on her son’s face when she picked him at the close of the day. When the teacher came back, Kolade was reported for violating the 10th commandment of the school “Thou shall not speak in vernacular.” He was punished leaving him heartbroken. Kolade, totally ignorant of the rules went on chatting with his new friend in his indigenous mother tongue, Yoruba.
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