{"id":207640,"date":"2025-09-19T23:46:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T21:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/africa-i-speak-english-so-why-must-i-pay-to-prove-it\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T23:46:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T21:46:50","slug":"africa-i-speak-english-so-why-must-i-pay-to-prove-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/liberia\/africa-i-speak-english-so-why-must-i-pay-to-prove-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: &#8220;I Speak English \u2013 So Why Must I Pay to Prove It&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"58\">Monrovia \u2014 When President Joseph Nyumah Boakai of Liberia visited the White House in July, President Donald Trump was struck by his flawless English, &#8220;Well thank you, and such good English, such beautiful,&#8221; Trump said after Boakai delivered short remarks. &#8220;Where did you learn to speak so beautifully? Where were you educated? Where? In Liberia? That&#8217;s interesting. It&#8217;s beautiful English.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"10\"><strong>READ: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/view\/group\/main\/main\/id\/00093345.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Trump Asks Liberian President Boakai Where He Learned English<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"54\">For many Africans whose nations bear the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509190689.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Liberia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/liberia\/\">Liberia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monrovia \u2014 When President Joseph Nyumah Boakai of Liberia visited the White House in July, President Donald Trump was struck by his flawless English, &#8220;Well thank you, and such good English, such beautiful,&#8221; Trump said after Boakai delivered short remarks. &#8220;Where did you learn to speak so beautifully? Where were you educated? Where? In Liberia? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":207641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671466:0b590ad7e5128e69bb66bf1d53c14041:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1086],"tags":[258,256,14588,1107,257,9105,8810,254,8676],"class_list":["post-207640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-liberia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-english","tag-liberia-news","tag-news","tag-pay","tag-prove","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speak"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00671466:0b590ad7e5128e69bb66bf1d53c14041:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}