The effects of social engineering has made me realise that culturally and ethnically, I recognise myself as a Mosotho but in African heritage and linguistics, Mosotho is a collective term referring to indigenous Africans and not a tribal or ethnic affiliation.

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And the crazy thing is, when I speak Sesotho it is made abundantly clear that my use of the word "motho" is referencing a person. Not an ethnic group. Another interesting twist is that when referring to a white person, motho gets dropped entirely and another term gets used

This term "lekhoa" or "lekgowa"(slight variation depending where you are in the interior), is not derogatory but directly translates to "a white man" in our dialect. But the word motho? Gets dropped entirely.

Motho wa lekhoa/lekgowa? Nope. Never used in that manner. To me that indicates that we subconsciously know that white people are not Batho/Bantu.

Social engineering will have you believe that slight language variations between the same stock of Africans constitutes enough ground to distinguish between African A and African B. Although we all share the same genepool.

Following language patterns across all indigenous ethnicities in Africa will give you a very clear picture of how we all descend from the same genepool and should cast away ethnic affiliations as we are all, infact, "Basotho".

Also, what the fuck is Nguni?? Noh mahn!

Have you noticed that we only refer to the word "Nguni" in a "scholarly" setting but when we speak our native languages it is nowhere to be found? What is NGUNI???? Noh mahn. Another thing: We need to table a motion to the AU where we adopt one official ...

Language for synchrony and matters of national relations. I need to be able to know that when I go from here to Tanzania then there will not be any language barriers that needs to be decrypted by using English. We will speak English with Makhoa not amongst us. Even if..

This policy gets adopted by regional segments of Africa for starters: A unified language in Southern Africa, Central Africa, Western Africa, Eastern Africa, and North Africa. And this should not be confused for learning another African language because you are "interested"

This goes beyond cultural intrigue but urgency and importance. It should be enforced so that even in matters of trade and other such aspects of national interest, we synchronise with the same language and not resort to English to understand each other.