Ndebe is a modern writing system for Igbo.

In this episode, our moderator Anotida Chikumbu sits with Joshua Castillo, a PhD Candidate in African History at Boston University. His research focuses on the relationship between language and political power under the Mobutu regime from 1965 to 1997 in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Co...

BARAZA is our annual one-day conference addressing any aspect of the language, literature, translation, culture, philosophy or diaspora of the Swahili speaking peoples of the world. The aim of the meeting is to foster academic interaction and exchange about new or emerging research, developing ideas...

"Our memories are fallible. We need a way to keep the word, in a way that it will speak for us, even in our absence"

Fewer than 10 elders speak Yakunte, a language native to Kenya’s Yaaku people that the UN has classified as ‘extinct’.

“There are three books in this world—the European book, the Arabic book, and the Vai book”

Does Kinyarwanda face extinction? Geoffrey Kagame, Inteko Izirikana shares his position on the question. By preserving Kinyarwanda, we preserve our identity, he said. Tune in to the 12th episode of Rwanda Check-I’m for the whole conversation.

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Education stakeholders yet again engaged in a heated debate yesterday over which language (Kiswahili or English) should be used for instruction in schools at a time when collection of views to...