It might be where the language itself originated, but oddly enough, English isn't the official language of the United Kingdom. In fact, the UK has no official language at all. Instead, English only ...

DAKAR, Senegal— 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 ...

Many African countries had indigenous languages before colonisation imposed the languages of the colonial powers, typically English, French, or Portuguese. Tanzania’s colonial language was English ...