Nigeria dumps mother-tongue education – just as Ghana embraces it. Who’s it right?

Africa’s latest education divide isn’t about budgets, access or even digital transformation, intrestingly, it’s about language, and two West African giants now sit on opposite sides of the debate.

On Wednesday November 12, Nigeria announced the reversal of its mother-tongue policy and reverted fully to English-only instruction from pre-primary through secondary school, a move the Education Minister defended as…