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Apartheid, the Mauritanian Way: No African Languages Allowed - Movement for Justice and Equality in Mauritania

21.7.12

Apartheid, the Mauritanian Way: No African Languages Allowed - Movement for Justice and Equality in Mauritania: In order to achieve its long-desired goal of complete Arabization of all populations - including indigenous Blacks - the government of Mauritania begun early on to use language as an effective instrument of de-Africanization

By 1966, Mauritania had already passed Arabization Acts No65-025 and 65-026, making the Arabic language compulsory in Secondary Schools. African students took to the streets at the news of the legislation but their revolt was brutally repressed by the authorities, who went even farther by purging nonconforming Black Africans officials out of the administration.


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