Zimbabwe to use gold coins as tender to reduce use of US dollars
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Reasons 1 and 3 are two halves of the same coin. The corrupt governors get kickbacks from facilitating the rape of resources.
Reason 2 is bogus. There are only two native vernaculars in Zimbabwe and the national language is English. The few vernaculars is not a political or economic advantage. There are probably a dozen vernaculars in neighboring Zambia, but the national language is English, and everyone (including plenty of foreigners) gets along just fine. The economy is starting to boom, now that the Lungu government is gone. Many languages not a problem...if you speak English.
As for the West, I am now beginning to despise what we have become, behind our backs.
How many tribes are there in Africa?
Lots. How many tribes are there in Europe? Also, lots. And if you think America doesn't have "tribes," you have been living elsewhere.
Read here.
They are many languages dude.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Languages_of_Africa
Not in Zimbabwe. And the number of languages (or vernaculars) in Zambia probably are more than a dozen. I have relatives in those countries, I've been there, and I think that counts for more than a Wikipedia entry. There is a reverse correlation between the number of languages present and the economic success prevailing. They are related neighbors, by the way.
The point is that your argument is bunk. India has a vast profusion of languages and dialects---but they speak English as a common language and do so in order to get along. English itself has such a range of dialects that it is possible for people at distant ends of the language not to understand one another (as my father found out in a Scottish pub).
Ok dude