Translation Africa Blog - May 2015
Sheng Street Language Helping to Heal Tribal Divisions
25/05/2015A Kenyan street language is helping to reduce tribal tensions and unite young people. So impressed are observers of the language’s influence that a social media platform promoting it will form the crux of a presentation at this year’s eLearning Africa conference. If you follow our blogs you might have come across the language before…
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Airtel Spots App Localization Opportunity in Malawi
19/05/2015We talk a lot on this blog about the need to localize content for the African market; mobile phone company Airtel have recently announced they are partnering with an App store developer to bring more of such content to Malawi. Airtel Malawi has made an agreement with neXva, who provide white labelled app stores, to help…
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Cambridge academics unlock African street language
02/05/2015The Ugandan government is being helped by Cambridge academics to understand an urban language that was originally used as code by criminals – but is now being used among Ugandan youth. Many of the country’s cool kids now speak Luyaaye rather than the traditional native languages of Kiswahili, English and Luganda. Originally Luyaaye was a…
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