FYI, a chance to make a comment about the importance of Africa's maternal languages. (Fwd from Africa_Net)... DZO For the BBC World "Africa Have Your Say"...
Ah, good. This is something I've thought about but never had the opportunity to follow up. For most African parents eager to give their children the gift of...
I was looking for something "official" on the web re Year of African Languages (nothing so far) but found that the blog of "Okuwori" (Sokari Ekine) at...
It's all down to colonial mentality is what I'd say. If African languages die out, do Africans think they'll be more respected in the world when they can only...
Thanks for this - you make a couple of good points. I'd like to carry it a step or two further if I may. Before that, I'd like to ask if you or anyone has...
Right on point Don. This shallow bilingualism is evident in Ghana at least. The unfortunate thing is that the tiny minority who successfully achieve ...
Hi Paa Kwesi. I assume you're talking about Akan and hope there will be some takers. On the topic of the Blakes books, I had passed that info on to some folks...
FYI. Here is a case where local languages in Africa are apparently losing out directly to the official (former colonial) language. It would be interesting to...
FYI, an announcement of this title was posted on AfricanLanguages as message #369. (Fwd from Linguist list)... DZO Date: 09-Dec-2005 From: Michael Cahill...
This small workshop is already underway in Cape Town, but the program may be of interest. CASAS is the Center for Advanced Study of African Societies... DZO ...
Well here we are in the Year of African Languages and it looks like Japanese car maker Nissan has a popular new model with a name from an African language:...
This site with strategies and techniques for academic studies may be of interest. Among other things it has a fully multilingual approach, needs more...
The following item from the Hirondelle News Agency was seen on AllAfrica.com at http://allafrica.com/stories/200601300222.html . It's too bad that either the...
The following item from the Zimbabwe government newspaper The Herald was seen on AllAfrica.com at http://allafrica.com/stories/200601300069.html ... DZO ...
The following item from the Johannesburg news agency Inter Press Service was seen on AllAfrica.com at http://allafrica.com/stories/200601300015.html ... DZO ...
The following item from the Lagos paper This Day was seen on AllAfrica.com at http://allafrica.com/stories/200601270166.html . It mentions African languages in...
This item from Unicode-Afrique may be of interest. Basically Prof. Condé is noting that some supporters of the Guinean football (soccer) team in the CAN 2006...
It's been a long time, but I've just read your reply, good one. You hit the nail on the head right there, the 64 million dollar question however, is, what can...
FYI (fwd from Malilink)... DZO ... To Whom It May Concern, My name is Eric Brewer and I am a recruiter with Lionbridge Interpretation Services. We work with...
Thanks for these thoughts. It is indeed illustrative to compare what the situation is with other world regions. Perhaps an initiative like the Year of African...
This item from the Jamahiriya News Agency (Libya) at http://www.jananews.com/Page.aspx?PageId=21464 may be of interest. Actually I thought that the Year was...
FYI, this item was seen at http://www.redorbit.com/news/international/370823/curse_hangs_over_african_languages_in_senegal/index.html (Google also pulls up...
The following article from the Nairobi paper The Nation was seen on AllAfrica.com at http://allafrica.com/stories/200602010868.html . It's another excellent...
FYI from PanaPress a couple of weeks ago at http://www.panapress.com/newslatf.asp?code=eng103865&dte=23/01/2006 . Note among other things the mention of the...
FYI, the following article from the Nigerian paper The Guardian, currently on their site at http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/editorial_opinion/article03 , was ...
The following item was seen at http://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/90/9244.html (thanks to a Google alert)... DZO Isolezwe records phenomenal growth ...
FYI, from http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=45647&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html DZO International Mother Language Day (21 February...
The following item from the Kenyan paper The Standard may be of interest. It goes beyond the subject in the title (note for instance the call for more reading...
This reminds me of the Yoruba language Newspaper "Alaroye", which will soon be celebrating it's tenth anniversary of publication. Although there have been...
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