i live in north of mauritania i live in dakar senegal then i went to vancouver then i was in los angeles and i came back to my house my father as my mom is no they always spoke to in english to each other english became my 1st language now. i lived arguably in all the corners of africa doesn't make me less african because i can speak english my africanness will always project in a different way so we have different ways that we project african is this language this this style of dress there's many aspects of culture how you call yourself and your existing young or just just you know just the way i look even just the way i look you know just this globe right it's not you it's african so we all have different ways of sort of manifesting the different elements takes to really be considered african languages just one of the most amazing thing is that the songs on the billboard charts the biggest african songs in the world are not in english and in friends in the lakes the mali and dialects. that's the highest like grossing song ever my point is just music is the universal language music unit