Des délégués lors d'un sommet de l'Union africaine à Malabo, en Guinée équatoriale, en 2022.
Pour progresser, les États membres doivent établir des priorités contraignantes, transparentes et applicables.
Delegates at an African Union summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, in 2022.
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Member states need to arrive at binding, transparent and enforceable priorities to see progress.
The opening ceremony of an African Union session in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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The Panel of the Wise shows promise but more needs to be done to turn it into a proactive pillar of Africa’s peace and security system.
Police officers under the African Union.
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The African Union’s Continental Early Warning System was created to anticipate and prevent conflicts, but it’s gone.
Hausa is the most widely known Chadic language, spoken by some 80 million people or more. It’s harder to grasp the history of other, unwritten Chadic languages.
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Reconstructed vocabulary sheds light on cultural items and people’s habitats, including the spread of ideas and the importance of certain concepts.
Learning in their mother tongue facilitates children’s ability to learn another language.
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The International Year of Indigenous Languages serves as a good impetus to start implementing policies that prioritises Africa’s own languages.
There’s no reason Africa shouldn’t be at the centre of global knowledge production.
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Africa’s current situation has a parallel in European history - the Reformation and the changes it wrought in terms of language exceptionalism.
Africa’s massive variety of languages should be celebrated and used in tertiary education.
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Africa needs a new strategy for mother-tongue based bilingual education, from primary through to tertiary level.
Small conversation or oral groups help people to learn a new language. When classes get too big, it’s impossible to teach in this way.
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It is important that all South Africans learn to speak an African language. But is making a single language a compulsory university subject the best way to make this happen?