Boladuro Lawson: Preserving our indigenous languages is a shared responsibility
Boladuro Joan Lawson Some grew up with it. Some didn't have that privilege. It may be considered 'fly', but the question remains ", Is speaking your native tongue important or not?" Personally, I wish I were very fluent in Isoko. Having been brought up in the city, by default and my environment, I grew up speaking the English Language. To add to it, the educational system didn't help me with my native dialect. Over the past months, I have been ruminating on what would have been different if I knew how to communicate in my native dialect. It is even more worrisome that, at the rate the world is changing, our indigenous languages may be going extinct. As I put my pen to paper, I started looking for the best feature to speak on the dearth of our native dialects; many people came to mind and showed interest, but only Boladuro Joan Lawson granted me audience so far. She took it up. Recognised as Miss Law 2026/2027, this final-year Law student of Lead City Universit...
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