I am intested in knowing what anyone who lived/lives in AFRICA feels about Ebonics AND teaching it in schools?

Question

I am doing a paper for my History class, and we have to put our feel on Ebonics, and I have been trying to research out Africans ( from any region really) feel on the language, and if they know anyone who knows it, and even feel like it's a descent of African language, that should be taugth in American schools?? Anyone with info. let me know. Thanks

Answer 1

I am sure the Africans are laughing their asses off.

Answer 2

I lived in Ethiopia for 2 years but I'm American not African. I have a number of African friends at church and I would be surprised if they thought much of Ebonics. The ones from English speaking countries (like Nigeria) pride themselves on their use of proper English, and none of them or even their children speak Ebonics. A previous poster was right, there's nothing african about it. It's basically a combination of a sort of american patois combined with southern US english (because slaves that came here had to learn english quickly/under stressful conditions from southerners) that morphed into what it is today.

Answer 3

That is stupid, why would you teach it in schools? Is there any country with the main speaking language of Ebonics? I doubt that. We (in school) should be learning languages we can use in our real lifes for example all romantic languages. You should tell your teacher that you personally think this language is only slang and will soon pass when these people grow up and try to get a job.

Answer 4

i have lived in tunisia that maybe is a bit out of your question but still since u said any region i am answering.
of course there the official language is arabic and almost everybody is bilingual with french and this helps a lot with relations with french speaking african countries. there are a lot of slang or common day words coming from african languages and maybe pidgin french languages around africa but everybody sticks to french because it helps communication.
ebonics doesnt have as far as i know any words from african languages so no african heritage and i think that teaching it in schools would be only another way to keep people out of the many opportunities that standard english as the widest spread language offers in communication, culture,etc...

Answer 5

I can see someone speaking "Ebonics" in the business world. Yeah, they will go far.
Ebonics is the slang of the uneducated blacks. There is slang in most sub-cultures, should it be taught in schools?. What possible benefit could that be for our society?
When we were kids we used to speak "Pig Latin" for fun, should that be taught in schools?
We are in an English speaking country. English should be the only recognized language. No other language should be printed or recognized on any government forms.

Answer 6

Ebonics didnt come from africa it comes from the lack of knowledge that we all the poor people in this country to live in

Answer 7

What next? Teach Redneckese?