Below is an excerpt from an announcement concerning a forum in the Washington, DC area. The featured authors apparently write in English (not sure if Helon...
Hello, Please find pasted below a call for papers for the Africa Without Borders Conference. Can you also help by forwarding it to other interested parties?...
mukoma ngugi
Mukoma@...
Feb 5, 2003 6:29 pm
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A back issue of the Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA) newsletter focuses on languages of instruction. See: ...
Here are two websites on African books for which I just received info (one via H-West-Africa). The first is presented in French, the second in English. I'll...
The annual observance of International Mother Language Day is next week, 21 February 2003. See the webpage at http://www.unesco.org/education/imld_2003/ It...
Hi, Buy books and support the African writers. The books are $10.00 each and shipping is $5.00. If your order is more than 5 books add $3.00 more for...
Wangui wa Mwangi
wanguimwa@...
Feb 26, 2003 7:28 pm
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... Buy books and support the African writers. The books are $10.00 each and shipping is $5.00. If your order is more than 5 books add $3.00 more for...
Wangui wa Mwangi
wanguimwa@...
Feb 26, 2003 7:31 pm
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The Africa Book Centre indicated that they don't have a listing by languages, but that one can search titles at their site. I haven't been in touch with...
FYI, the Modern Language Association convention in Dec. 2003 will apparently have three Africa-related sessions - according to a recent call for papers which I...
Wangui, Out of curiosity, what are the languages of the books listed as nos. 8, 9, 25, 26 and 27? I assume the two by Ngugi wa Thiong'o (8&9) are in Gikuyu....
I am curious to know more about how African families with higher levels of education and/or living outside of Africa use their maternal languages with their...
The following site is an index to works by African authors, including literature in Afrikaans, Arabic, Amharic, Swahili, Zulu, as well as English, French, and...
The following e-group resource may be of interest for information on teaching languages to children: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/multilingualmunchkin/ The...
I guess part of what I was asking in my recent posts about teaching children was whether parents and families such as those discussed in this article Mwangi...
"Xhosa learners ambivalent about English" Monday Paper, Dec. 4-11, 2000 http://web.uct.ac.za/general/monpaper/2k-no38/rima.htm The Project for the Study of...
The following may be of interest. I've often thought it would be interesting to use the web as a way of "repatriating" stories, poetry, and histories recorded...
Earlier I posted the websites for two web sources for African books, Soumbala and Africa Book Centre, and Wangui wa Mwangi has posted a list of books for sale...
FYI, the Zimbabwe International Book Fair, an annual event that bills itself (with good reason, so far as I know) as "the largest and most important book fair...
N'ko* is an alphabet designed originally for the Mande (or Manding) languages of West Africa (Malinké, Mandingo, Bambara, Jula) by Souleyman Kanté in the...
I pass on this request for info on recent South African literature. I personally would be curious to know about novels written in South African languages other...
Here is info from H-Africa about an interesting initiative. There is no indication on the site (URL in text below) what languages other than English may be...
A new list "a12n-forum" has been created to share information and hopefully provide help for people and projects who want to use African languages on computers...
Hello, please follow the ff url, to check out news about a Yoruba keyboard developed in Nigeria. http://www.nigeria.com/dcforum/DCForumID1/1815.html Regards...
Hello all I'm new to the club and I am interested in historical novels by afican authors. I would like to get a list from anyone who could help me. Thanks. ...
This is very interesting news, and indeed I'd encourage anyone interested to read the article. It has information about more than just the keyboard layout. ...
I personally don't have any list, but since no one else has responded yet, you might try searching the discussion logs of the academic (but readable) list...
