In a new educational initiative, five-year-old pupils in a kindergarten near central Dakar have begun learning English, alongside French, the country’s official language. Teacher Absa Ndiaye reported ...

English was only taught in public high schools and universities, although it is sometimes taught from nursery school onwards ...

Hers is one of more than 600 classes in Senegal that have been testing a new program of teaching English in kindergartens and ...