“French is just fine because it’s spoken on every continent, which is rare for a language,” says Christophe Benzitoun, a lecturer in linguistics at the University of Lorraine. “There are several ...

Due to its colonial past with France, Togo adopted French as its official language in 1960, a fact enshrined in Article 3 of the country's constitution. But what place does French now have in Togo’s ...

The coup-born government of Burkina Faso unveiled a bill aiming to revise the constitution and abolish the use of French as an official language. This development raises the question of whether we are ...

What does French mean to its speakers across the world? Listen La langue, c'est notre mère, on suce la langue en suçant le lait maternel. La langue, c'est notre oxygène, c'est notre chlorophylle. On ...