How Africans Are Changing French — One Joke, Rap and Book at a Time – Canada Boosts
French, by most estimates the world’s fifth most spoken language, is altering — maybe not within the gilded hallways of the establishment in Paris that publishes its official dictionary, however on a rooftop in Abidjan, the most important metropolis in Ivory Coast. There one afternoon, a 19-year-old rapper who goes by the stage identify “Marla”…