So it was my intuition that language was going to be an important political issue that drew me to reading anthropology.

Yeah.

Oh, wow.

That's such a cool kind of introduction into anthropology.

Yeah, the connection between anthropology as a discipline and the way in which it's informed some of your work in political science.

Just going back briefly to that language question as a legacy of colonialism for some of our listeners who might be curious about this.

It's really striking to me talking to you today that in some ways, Nigeria and Somalia are opposite extremes of the same problem in the sense that Somalia is this country that everyone speaks the same African language, Somali, and there's a very strong sense of Somali nationality.

And we now have four or five papers where we show that this equilibrium with medium of instruction in mother tongue in the first six years pays off in human development.