Translation Africa Blog - May 2017

BBC Adds Seven More African Languages
19/05/2017The BBC has announced that it will launch 11 new language services in 2017 as part of an expansion project – 7 of the languages are African! The new languages are Afaan Oromo, Amharic, Tigrinya, Igbo, Yoruba and Nigerian Pidgin. This is great and exciting news for the development of African languages. Why these African…
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French Language to Become Compulsory for Schools in Ghana
19/05/2017Ghana’s President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has announced that he has given the go-ahead for the process to start on examining how to implement the teaching of French in the Ghanaian education system, from primary to senior high school education levels. “We’ll want to make French a compulsory language in our schools right until the…
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