In which African countries is the least English spoken?

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Gambia and Malawi have the lowest percentage of English speakers according to Wikipedia. The only place with lower percentage is China at 0.9% compared to 2.34 and 3.88 for Gambia and Malawi, respectively. There are a few other countries in Africa with fewer than 10%: Swaziland, Uganda, Tanzania and Algeria.

As you recently found out, a lot of countries in Africa have plenty of English speakers due to colonial times and this tends to be concentrated around larger cities, so a global percentage will not be representative of the main cities since access to education varies greatly in that part of the world.

Interestingly, other than Algeria listed above, all these other countries list English as an official language! This could make people want English and more likely to pay for classes, although this is speculation on my part.

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