Nguwe lo Sebe mntfwanaketfu! Ungilahleleni Asho Majaheni asondzela atsi ubamba singani sakhe. Phela solo akayifundzi incwadzi, lebese kukadze bayifundzile bangani bakhe. Solo ukhweshe njalo Sebe, emehlo setimbokodvo nje? In my first opinion, there are three major reasons. First, the colonial period saw the imposition of a one-language model for administration. This language, whether English, French, Portuguese, or Spanish, became the dominant language in practically all aspects of the public domain. Second, although each colonial territory remained multilingual, attitudes to the one-language model came to supercede the acceptance of multilingualism. The elite, which had been spawned by the colonial language policy and which consequently became the main beneficiary of the policy, came to embrace the virtues of a dominant official language, particularly as such a language was, and is, also accepted as a language of wider communication. Third, on gaining independence, leaders of the emergent African countries became preoccupied with ensuring that the newly independent countries ceased to be a mere conglomeration of nationalities or a mere "geographical expression", forced into a union by the colonial power, but became a truly integrated nation.