There is no one lingua franca for all of Africa, but the largest one is Swahili, which is found in East Africa.In North Africa, Arabic is the most common language, and in the South, English is the...
the lingua franca of east Africa is the modern Swahili which is being used as national language in east Africa(Kenya, Tanzania) whereby some foreign languages words aded in but the origin or the...
A lingua franca is a widely known language, generally used when speakers of two other languages want to communicate.
For example a speaker of Arabic may talk to a speaker of Japanese by both of them...