Multilingualism and African languages

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Journals:

• Language in Africa

Centres:

• Centre de Linguistique Appliquee de Dakar

Websites:

• SIL Africa Learning and Development

Blogs:

• A manifesto for decolonising multilingualism – Alison Phipps

News, videos and blogs

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Blogs:

• Learners’ language practices in multilingual classrooms of Nakonde District – Mwandia

Webinars:

• How linguistics supports African language literacy – Sian Rees
• Decentring ELT first webinar: what is decentring about? – Africa TESOL (webinars 2, 3 and 4 are also available)

Videos:

• Emergence of Gambian literature – Pierre Gomez
• Social linguistics. Making social sense of the discipline of linguistics in multilingual Africa – Emmanuel Ngué Um
• Black lives will not matter until our languages also matter: the politics of linguistics and education in post-colonies – Michel DeGraff
• Translanguaging – what is it and how do you plan for it? – Eowyn Crisfield

News:

• Why Kenya’s M-Lugha is translating the school syllabus into indigenous languages 2020
• We have normalised negativity towards African languages – Ngugi wa Thiong’o 2019
• Speaking mother tongue won’t bring down the Tower of Babel 2018
• Promoting local language content in Africa’s movie industry 2020
• Why Uganda’s English language policy is failing rural children 2019
• South Africans prefer their children to be taught in English 2019
• Africa’s linguistic revolution 2019
• Cameroon’s language barriers 2020
• Defence minister visits West Africa and extends language training to Senegalese Armed Force 2019

Magazines:

• Linguistics magazine for children: Lingo 1 & Lingo 2

Doing research in Africa

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Podcasts:

• Doing linguistic fieldwork, e.g. Ep 15: Rethinking the ‘field’ in Fieldwork – Hannah Gibson