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French Language to Become Compulsory for Schools in Ghana

French Language to Become Compulsory for Schools in Ghana

19/05/2017

Ghana’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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Gauteng Moves to Preserve African Languages through Education

Gauteng Moves to Preserve African Languages through Education

19/06/2016

One area it is clear to see the status of African languages becoming elevated is within education; Gauteng in South Africa has now made a bold move to preserve indigenous languages through the education system. According to many online reports, schools in will be at the forefront of a new language education policy in 2017 which…

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Teachers call for investment in African languages

Teachers call for investment in African languages

07/01/2016

SADTU (The South African Democratic Teachers Union) is the latest of voices from the continent calling for more investment and development of indigenous African languages in schools and the education system. In a report from News24 SADTU claims that results from 2015 indicated that language plays a massive role in how successful a pupil is or…

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Local languages must be central to education in Ghana

Local languages must be central to education in Ghana

09/10/2015

More calls in Ghana from stakeholders within the education system to make local languages central to education . The voices across the continent for education in indigenous languages is getting louder and louder. Speakers were expressing opinions at a stakeholders’ meeting in Tamale, the first stop in a road show of meetings across Ghana to get…

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African Language Education Policy for South Africa

African Language Education Policy for South Africa

19/06/2015

On this blog we have long been tracking the increased calls for African languages to reclaim their places within education systems. In South Africa, as part of a new African languages policy by the Department of Basic Education, South African schools will soon be teaching African languages as part of the curriculum. We strongly believe…

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Teach our Kids African Languages Not Foreign Ones

Teach our Kids African Languages Not Foreign Ones

14/04/2015

In an interesting development in South African politics, The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) has called on the Minister of Basic Education to make African languages compulsory in schools rather than pushing foreign ones such as Mandarin. “This begs a question of whether schools in China will teach IsiZulu or other African languages, as the Minister…

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Mobiles Increasingly Being Used for Reading in Africa

Mobiles Increasingly Being Used for Reading in Africa

18/03/2015

A leading mobile reading platform says that young Africans have increasingly taken up reading on mobile devices. Could this spell a translation boom? Through its mobile application, Worldreader, a not-for-profit organisation, allows people in low income countries to access books and stories through mobile phones.  Started in 2010, it also hands out e-readers and e-books…

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Ghana Sees Calls for Local Languages in Schools

Ghana Sees Calls for Local Languages in Schools

22/09/2014

The Ghanian Minister for Education has stated schools should turn to Ghana’s local languages as the language of instruction in the country’s primary schools. Her opinion is backed up by the head of the  Department of Linguistics at the University of Ghana, who blames social media on the bad school results of the Ghanian youth….

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African Language Teaching Introduced in  South African Schools

African Language Teaching Introduced in South African Schools

15/09/2014

Next year, close to 4,000 schools in South Africa will start African language classes in grade 1. This decision has been made based on a pilot project that ran in schools this year. In South Africa, the Department of Basic Education’s Incremental Introduction of African Languages (IIAL) has recently announced an interesting new programme that…

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App Makes Ebooks Available in African Languages

App Makes Ebooks Available in African Languages

11/08/2014

To many, the fact that literacy in African countries often leaves a lot to be desired comes as no surprise. A lot of organisations, however, are looking for ways to turn this around. Take for example Worldreader, who is planning to distribute nearly 400 African ebooks for free! In cooperation with the African division of…

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