‘Teach me my mother tongue’: The Kenyan school where native languages rule
The Children in Freedom School, in Kenya’s Rift Valley, aims to disrupt Kenya’s Eurocentric educational model and to replace it with a blend of local languages and Afrocentric thinking. The institution was recently shortlisted for the World’s Best School Prize, putting them among the top ten schools worldwide in the ‘overcoming adversity’ category. To mark International Mother Tongue Language Day, France 24’s Olivia Bizot went to visit.