The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use English in a wa… - Chinua Achebe

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The price a world language must be prepared to pay is submission to many different kinds of use. The African writer should aim to use English in a way that brings out his message best without altering the language to the extent that its value as a medium of international exchange will be lost. He should aim at fashioning out an English which is at once universal and able to carry his peculiar experience.