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Nick Freitas: Why doesn't Africa have a word for 'maintenance'?

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Nick Freitas: Why doesn't Africa have a word for 'maintenance'?

Blaze Media · Nov 2, 2026, 10:00 PM UTC

What if one of the biggest obstacles to economic development isn't politics, natural resources, or government institutions, but something much more fundamental? Franck Zanu of Zanu Project Rethink joins Nick Freitas to examine an unusual observation about African languages: the apparent absence of a word for "maintenance.…