It reads powerfully in the Shona language, and is one of two of her books newly translated into it.
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The history of the coastal communities of east Africa shows how ethnic groups and their languages were shaped.
Variations of English names reveal the enduring effects of British rule - but there’s also a return to tradition.
By the 1950s a standard version of the language emerged, today spoken by an estimated 200 million people.
Studies of African multilingual contexts are almost non-existent in high-impact scientific journals.
Novelist Petina Gappah’s call for translators on Facebook has resulted in the publication of Chimurenga Chemhuka.
Reading fluency and expanding vocabulary are the bridge from decoding to comprehension. Weaknesses in any of these building blocks will limit a child’s ability to read for meaning.
Making South African Sign Language official is more symbolic than useful in the lives of a very marginalised community.
Missionaries and African translators working on local versions of the Bible divided South Africa’s ethnic groups by language.
There’s a new wave of indigenous language podcasts that could attract big new audiences.
The first speech sounds were uttered about 70,000 years ago and not hundreds of thousands of years ago as is sometimes claimed.
Indigenous knowledge, African languages, queer rights and Afrofuturism are some of the issues discussed in the new book.
Over two millennia, Swahili has built bridges among people across Africa and into the diaspora.
Reconstructed vocabulary sheds light on cultural items and people’s habitats, including the spread of ideas and the importance of certain concepts.
There is something beautiful about African languages carrying science, fictionalised of course, into imagined futures.
Students from São Tomé and Príncipe must negotiate being both native speakers of Portuguese and Black Africans. And how they speak Portuguese is perceived as an issue.
The documentary resulted in the creation of an active translation network.
A realignment is needed as the current systems have lost the competence to midwife a new nation out of the formative experiences of the last 25 years.
Police officers are also not, and are not expected to be, sworn translators or interpreters. This has serious implications for justice.
Research has shown that African immigrants in South Africa refrain from speaking their own languages and try to speak local languages to blend in.
Principales colaboradores
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Professor of African Language Studies, University of the Western Cape
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Emeritus Professor of African Linguistics, University of Leipzig
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Postdoctoral research fellow (Forensic Linguistics/ Language and Law), University of the Western Cape
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Lecturer in African Languages, Makerere University
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Associate Professor in Applied Linguistics, University of South Australia
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Lecturer, Department of African Languages, Makerere University
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Junior Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Senior Researcher, University of the Western Cape
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DFG-funded researcher in Afrikanistik (African Studies), University of Leipzig
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Professor emeritus Applied Language Studies, Nelson Mandela University
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Associate professor, University of the Witwatersrand
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Director of the Institute for the Study of English in Africa, Rhodes University
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Professor in Language Education, member bua-lit collective, University of Cape Town
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Subject Head, African Languages, Rhodes University
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Senior Lecturer, Applied Language and Literacy Studies, University of Cape Town
