Across three decades of democracy, South Africa has – like many places undergoing complex and uneven social change – seen an ...

Practitioners can also reduce stigma by using language relevant to the local environment. International, government and local level stakeholders should jointly secure funding for research to ...

The linguistic landscape is far more complicated than it first appears, with many isolated languages and sub-families that ...

Africa is the most linguistically diverse continent in the world. Learn more about the 15 MOST SPOKEN LANGUAGES IN AFRICA in ...

The choice of Swahili, an East African language, reflects its status as a symbol of Pan-Africanism, especially in the 1960s, although most of the Atlantic slave trade that brought African people to ...

Prof Ngugi insisted that you should first learn your mother tongue. Speaking one’s mother tongue preserves culture and a ...

In Language City, Ross Perlin, a linguist, takes readers on a tour of the city’s communities with endangered tongues.

If one factor could be said to have fuelled his intellectual and literary evolution, it was undoubtedly the language of his ...

His debut, Weep Not, Child (1964)—written while he was a student at Makerere University—was a landmark, the first English-language novel published by an East African. Its lyrical yet unflinching ...

noting that Ngũgĩ later transitioned to only writing in his native Gikuyu language. Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga sent condolences to the author’s family, saying “a giant African has ...