Meeting report on the use of African languages as the language of instruction in literacy programmes in Africa, examines the importance of using the mother tongue in these programmes - discusses language policy in the following countries: Burundi, Cameroon UR, Ghana, Madagascar DR, Mali, Niger, Sierra Leone, Tanzania UR, Togo, Uganda and Zambia, briefly refers to such related questions as resistance to change, oral tradition, functional literacy, the shortage of reading materials, transcription, the use of foreign languages and special problems in rural areas, includes the agenda of the meeting