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Thomas Sankara is really a fascinating figure (infosec.pub)
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[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 1 points 5 days ago

FFS, I’m on mobile, I’m not swiping you a novel.

Apparently, you also aren't reading a short article, one that you claimed to have read numerous times in the past.

Plus you only want a fight and to discard any evidence I provide for you.

What evidence did you provide for me?

Like a site filled with actual information about the guy in this vague meme, which you ignore.

... the only site you cited you claimed as a source of mis information, that you claimed the meme was perpetuating; not as a source of accurate information. Jesus Christ, can you not keep your own arguments straight?

About the literacy issue, French was the official language for any former French colony, and therefore the only metric of “literacy” for many francophone counties in Africa after independence was, perversely, French. It varies by country, but ECOWAS countries didn’t start officially recognizing local languages until much later.

Teaching literacy in local languages, however, is not so easy. There are no manuals or materials, and the French school system that everyone kept well into today is extremely wrote memorization based. I had a friend who did this all from the ground up 20 years ago in a widely spoken language, and everything was starting from nothing, all to get about 100 village kids to read the language they already spoke.

None of that says anything about why you rejected both as 'real' literacy, but I guess non-sequiturs are all you have left to defend the bizarre points of "Writing the local language in Arabic isn't real literacy" and "Being literate in French isn't real literacy".

Anything to make sure those scary African Marxists... how did you put it? "have any sort of success at all"?