This item seen on the ILAT list may be of interest. I'm reading it now while also looking again at an article on language policies in West Africa that makes...
One of the impediment for the promotion of african languages is the perception, especially in urban areas, that african languages are not related to modernity....
Thanks for this interesting item. I agree that there are a lot of subtle ways that media only or almost only in English or French or Portuguese establish the...
Speaking of children's TV programs in African languages, here's an item from the Baha'i World News Service on a program in Amharic that may be of interest. The...
ARTS FOR FORGIVENESS and commemorate the bicentenary of the abolition of slave trade BY FREDERICK EBOT ASHU ON BEHALF OF THE AFRICAN HERITAGE ARSTFESTTEAM ...
"There was a time when any native language spoken in Africa was contemptuously referred to as a 'tongue', 'dialect', 'patois' or 'vernacular', etc. Nowadays...
This item may be of interest. Is it "English only"? (Seen on H-Swahili). Don Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 15:53:26 -0500 From: Mukoma Wa Ngugi <mwngugi@...> ...
This sounds like a worthy project, good luck with it. Don ... abolition of slave trade ... its people cannot be forgotten," The descendents of victims of...
This opportunity may be of interest to some. Apparently they need fluent native speakers. (Fwd from H-Africa)... Don Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2007 From: Pablo...
The following item from the Abuja paper, the Daily Trust, was seen on AllAfrica.com at http://allafrica.com/stories/200703190921.html . This concerns a...
The following item from the Harare paper, the Herald, was seen on AllAfrica.com at http://allafrica.com/stories/200703190921.html . One question is whether any...
FYI (from H-Hausa): Sha'irai (Hausa Poets) http://www.shairai.blogspot.com/ Bahaushe Mai Ban Haushi! (Ibrahim Sheme on himself, Hausa culture and the World)...
The following item from the Kampala paper, New Vision, was seen on AllAfrica.com at http://allafrica.com/stories/200703260444.html . Uganda is implementing a...
The following item from the South African press agency, Bua News, was seen on AllAfrica.com at http://allafrica.com/stories/200703191311.html . Don South...
The following item from the Accra weekly, Public Agenda, was seen on AllAfrica.com at http://allafrica.com/stories/200704090934.html . Note the discussion of...
This is a revision of the call for submissions. Note mention of translated work. (That brings to mind a question - how do authors see their writing as...
The following column from the Harare paper, The Herald, was seen on AllAfrica.com at http://allafrica.com/stories/200703150023.html . Don Zimbabwe: Linguistic...
The following item from the Windhoek paper, New Era, was seen on AllAfrica.com at http://allafrica.com/stories/200703051089.html . Don Namibia: Mother Tongue...
I have neglected to post about a big controversy in Nigeria about a decision to remove currency denominations in Hausa written in Ajami (Arabic script)....
The following column from the Kampala paper, The Monitor, was seen on AllAfrica.com at http://allafrica.com/stories/200702270628.html . It and another I will...
The following column from the Kampala paper, The Monitor, was seen on AllAfrica.com at http://allafrica.com/stories/200703201089.html . It is a reply to an...
The following article from the Accra weeky, Public Agenda, was seen on AllAfrica.com at http://allafrica.com/stories/200703050501.html . (NB- Prof. Prah is...
The following item from the Windhoek paper, New Era, was seen on AllAfrica.com at http://allafrica.com/stories/200703191093.html . Don Namibia: Bible...
The following article from the Ndola daily, The Times of Zambia, was seen on AllAfrica.com at http://allafrica.com/stories/200702170112.html . The radio drama ...
The following item from the Addis Ababa paper, The Daily Monitor, was seen on AllAfrica.com at http://allafrica.com/stories/200703120839.html . It concerns...
The following article from the Johannesburg paper, Business Day, was seen on AllAfrica.com at http://allafrica.com/stories/200701221343.html . (NB- Prof....
Just came across a 2001 publication in PDF format online called: Unfolding Learning Societies: Deepening the Dialogues Vimukt Shiksha Special Issue April 2001 ...
FYI (fwd from ILAT)... Don Why mother tongues are dying Nairobi-Kenya http://www.eastandard.net/mags/society/articles.php?articleid=1143967620 In a bus headed...
FYI, this excerpt from the WOUGNET newsletter refers to a CD in Luganda and Luo, as well as English. ... wrote: WOUGNET Update Newsletter - April 2007 ...
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