Multilingualism and African languages
JOURNAL Language in Africa
CENTRE Centre de Linguistique Appliquee de Dakar
WEBSITE SIL Africa Learning and Development
BLOG A manifesto for decolonising multilingualism – Alison Phipps
News, videos and blogs
BLOG –Learners’ language practices in multilingual classrooms of Nakonde District – Mwandia
WEBINAR How linguistics supports African language literacy – Sian Rees
WEBINAR Decentring ELT first webinar: what is decentring about? – Africa TESOL (webinars 2, 3 and 4 are also available)
VIDEO Emergence of Gambian literature – Pierre Gomez
VIDEO – Social linguistics. Making social sense of the discipline of linguistics in multilingual Africa – Emmanuel Ngué Um
VIDEO Black lives will not matter until our languages also matter: the politics of linguistics and education in post-colonies – Michel DeGraff
VIDEO 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
NEWS – We have normalised negativity towards African languages – Ngugi wa Thiong’o 2019
NEWS – Speaking mother tongue won’t bring down the Tower of Babel 2018
NEWS – Promoting local language content in Africa’s movie industry 2020
NEWS – Why Uganda’s English language policy is failing rural children 2019
NEWS – South Africans prefer their children to be taught in English 2019
NEWS – Africa’s linguistic revolution 2019
NEWS – Cameroon’s language barriers 2020
NEWS – Defence minister visits West Africa and extends language training to Senegalese Armed Force 2019
MAGAZINE Linguistics magazine for children: Lingo 1 & Lingo 2
Doing research in Africa
PODCASTS – Doing linguistic fieldwork, e.g. Ep 15: Rethinking the ‘field’ in Fieldwork – Hannah Gibson
Multilingual Education in The Gambia (MEG) 