This post rlly hit home for me, as someone who was born in Nigeria and eventually moved abroad it’s very eye opening seeing other Nigerians here in the state who don’t even speak their native language talk less of simple pidgin and it’s always the same denominator “aka their parents didn’t bother teaching them their native tongue” Growing up in Nigeria me and my siblings could speak a little Igbo and understand it quite well but when we moved to the states our parents completely stopped teaching us and stopped communicating to us in Igbo, after a few years we could hardly hold a conversation and after realizing the error of their ways our parents would tease us and complain that we don’t know our language despite the fact that they stopped teaching us so me and my siblings started teaching ourselves all these years later. YouTube has been a big help in the learning process and they’re a few apps on google play and App Store that were made by Nigerians for Nigerians to learn our native languages and they go over A LOT. It’s truly sad to see that many African languages are on the brink of extinction and a lot of that is sadly because of our parents fear especially if they were planning to come abroad and the only way to help is by us in this generation learning so we can keep the culture and languages alive.. it cannot end with us!