What’s Wrong with my English, as an African Inventor?

As the founder of Kumatoo, I receive emails or documentation from Africans with talent. All of them, however, do not necessarily have a good command of the “official language” spoken in their country and that was inherited through colonization. What matters to them is how they can convey a technical message even if the words are misspelled or used incorrectly, or even if the structure of their sentence would shock the purists.

A language is a means of communication. In other words, it is simp...