African languages like any other languages have economic value which is  a tool for communication and essential vehicle for economic development and prosperity.

We live in an age where information and knowledge are pertinent to wealth creation.

Indigenous African languages are spoken by over 90 per cent of Africans across age groups. On the contrary, only about an average of the African population speak the so called more illustrious colonial languages. Therefore, using these colonial languages as official languages rob millions of Africans ,who don't speak them from contributing meaningfully to the economic development of their respective countries, by extension, Africa.

Our diverse indigenous language is an important enabling resource for developing communities to actively participate in the process of wealth creation through generation of knowledge.

The world around us has gone digital we must not be left behind, there is need for greater presence on the internet, designing more website and development of products and services in African languages if Africa is to become an economic force in the near future.

It is mind blowing how the level of economic development we can accomplish in the African continent if we embrace the endless possibilities in media, education, advertising, technology and other sectors by creating content and making knowledge and information available in our local languages. Millions of jobs will be created, we certainly have they numbers and a readily available market.

Africa has all it takes to become an economic world power if it repositions its indigenous languages as a tool for economic development and empowerment. Embracing indigenous languages as languages of instruction in schools for instance would greatly boost our academic achievement, self reliant, greater creativity and hence productivity, more economic opportunities viz-a-viz prosperity.