00:00Kano State, millions of students walk into school, carrying one language from home and meeting another one inside the classroom.
00:08In this episode of My Hustle, I will be experiencing what it takes to be a classroom teacher.
00:15My name is Safiya Muhammad Magana, live from N2's Entrepreneurship Secondary School, and this is my hustle.
00:22For teachers like Safiya Muhammad, language is not just about communication. It can decide whether students understand a lesson or
00:32completely lose interest.
00:34The father provides food, shelter, health, okay, all of these things.
00:41The taribiya do uvada ua disike eva de taribiye ngara, ba ua kwa itake eva de taribiya wa.
00:47But immediately, you can see the difference. The students become more relaxed, confident, and more involved.
00:55Sometimes when you speak in English, they will still ask you to translate it in the language they understand.
01:01And do you see that as a challenge?
01:03It's not. Even though some schools would not want you to use indigenous languages, they will strictly want you to
01:10be in English.
01:11But to me, I would prefer to, like, anytime I'm teaching, I would love to give insights or give examples
01:18with language.
01:20And here in Kano State, the contrast is impossible to ignore.
01:24Outside the classroom, Aousa dominates almost every conversation.
01:29Markets run in Aousa. Transport workers negotiate in Aousa. Families communicate in Aousa.
01:37But we understand it for the local setting rather than the formal setting.
01:43Since when we were in Aousa school, we used to speak English.
01:46So we understand English more to this kind of a setting, this formal setting, this school setting.
01:53But the problem here is you can respond to your friends in Aousa while you can't respond to what your
02:01teacher is saying in Aousa.
02:02Why? Because you're familiar to English.
02:04For many students here in Kano State, this is not just an academic debate.
02:10It is their daily reality and perhaps the future of African education.
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