Mastery of English has defined social status to varying degrees since the colonial era, but the economic fallout from the coup has strengthened its power to both uplift and exclude.
BY Frontier
In a sense, the current media scandals involving online defamation suits and conflicts of interest illustrate how far things have come.
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