The African Language Solutions Blog

Staff writer at Slate, Ben Blatt, has used statistics from Census Bureau’s American Community Survey to create language maps of America. The maps illustrate language use across the USA, interestingly with one map dedicated to African languages.   The map below shows the most spoken African languages state by state.  As you can see Amharic…

Even though they are not the mother tongue of many people in South Sudan, the country’s media often uses the English or Arabic languages  meaning many miss out on a lot of important information. In an article on Radio Mazuj, Daniel van Oudenaren states that the crisis in South Sudan has influenced  the media sector…

After their culture has been oppressed by the Gadaffi government for decades, the Amizagh people are finally able to show their true colours. Al Jazeera recently discussed the Amizagh and their culture which we thought was a nice follow on to our blog “Ethnic and Linguistic Diversity in Libya“. The Amizagh are a minority group…

The 2013 edition of the annual African Economic Outlook report (PEA) endeavours to work out the growth predictions for the continent. The Ivory Coast is in 4th position, closely followed by Democratic Republic of the Congo in 5th position. It is in West Africa that the growth will be fastest during the 2013-2014 period, predicts…

Enterprises that are planning to expand their activities to the African continent should take a closer look at their enterprise resource planning: ensuring that their ERP system approaches consumers in their own language can positively influence their success. According to Taryn Cromie, many companies that wish to expand their business turn their eyes to Africa….

News out that mobile phone company Tigo and Facebook have joined forces, offering all East Africans who are clients of Tigo with  free access to the social media site on their mobile devices. The move  clearly demonstrates the importance of Africa in Facebook’s future growth plans. According to an article on AllAfrica, the recent partnership…

African languages have long been under-represented online and in the digital space. This however is changing and we here at African Language Solutions predict the next big internet boom will come from the continent, pushing local languages into the digital space. The “home to African tech” website, HumanIPO, is the place to keep an eye…

After an absence of twenty years, Indian languages make their comeback on South African Schools! In previous years, South African schools taught Indian languages such as Hindi and Tamil as part of their official curriculum. This practice ended twenty years ago, but according to an article on the Business Standard, these languages will soon return…

Recently, the World bank issued a new report on which they investigated how easy it is for companies to do business in a multitude of countries across the globe. Of course, the African continent was researched as well: read on to discover which African country is best for businesses! Annually, the World Bank publishes a…

In South Africa, ten Western Cape schools have agreed to participate in a pilot project by the South African government. By doing so, they have agreed to teach the Xhosa language to their pupils in grade 1. On website IOL News, Ilse Fredericks discusses a new project set up by the Department of Basic Education…