MOUNTOUGOULA, Mali (AP) — For Aminata Doumbia, an 18-year-old Malian, the “Shifin ni Tagne” project was a path for her life dreams. A phrase meaning “our future” in the country’s main local language, ...

Since Mali adopted a new constitution in 2023, the country has 13 official languages. Although French is no longer part of that list, the language of the former coloniser is still present everywhere, ...

In Mali, a few lines from the country's proposed draft constitution are fueling an ongoing debate about what its official language - or languages - should be. Since Mali gained independence from ...

Each time Chérif Keïta, a professor at Carleton College in Minnesota, lands in his native Mali and enters a taxi, he hears fewer radio hosts speaking French. Some commentators mix French with local ...

Mali gained independence from France in 1960, yet even today French is the language of government business, used on road signs and in state TV broadcasts.