Arabe, langue de colonisation en Mauritanie?

Arabe, langue de colonisation en Mauritanie? Mauritania, a country located between West Africa and North Africa, is a mosaic oflanguages and cultures, a crossroads of Arab-Berber-Negro-Mauritanian civilizations. It iscomposed of very heterogeneous populations, who have in common only the Muslimreligion. Consisting of Arabs, Haratines, Fulani, Soninke, Wolof, Bambara and Berbers,Mauritania has difficulty in implementing a decisive language policy for all the Mauritanianlinguistic communities mentioned above, because it is so marked by incessant linguisticconflicts, animated from time to time by the "pro-Arab" and the "pro-French", as well asthose for whom the officialization and teaching of other national languages (Pulaar, Soninkeand Wolof) are more than indispensable.Faced with the difficulty of conceiving the development of a language policy in a situation ofmultilingualism, Mauritanian decision-makers are often accused by the Negro-Mauritanians,in particular the associations for the promotion of national languages and by a certainNegro-Mauritanian elite, of promoting only the Arab language and culture to the detriment ofall other Mauritanian languages.Consequently, it is legitimate to ask what is the place of Arabic, this other Mauritanianlanguage which seems to be doing better than the others? How is the Mauritanian languagepolicy, centered on Arabization, perceived by the different communities of the country andwhat are the consequences for national cohesion?