Looking at the digital technologies powering e-commerce in the 21st century, one might be led to assume that a handful of ...

A new ecosystem of publishers, bookstores, literary magazines and festivals is promoting African writers and changing the ...

When South Africa became a democracy in 1994, five of the country’s universities used Afrikaans as a medium of instruction.

Fact-checking initiatives in Francophone Africa — where many Indigenous languages also are spoken — typically publish their ...

Forget what you think you know about AI. With AI, we're not simply talking about automation replacing workers. This is a ...

This has led to litigation and three judgments in South Africa's apex court, the constitutional court. Afrikaans is commonly categorised as an Indo-European language, related to Dutch. It can be ...

South Africa Egypt and Morocco are the leading countries in the African continent with the best-ranked universities in the ...

Chennai: From low literacy rates to poverty and piracy, African publishers face many challenges. However, they are betting on the younger generation and trying to translate literature including ...

Filipo Lubua, a linguistics professor and the coordinator of Pitt’s Swahili program, said Swahili conversation hours venture beyond language exchange. “Choosing to learn Swahili, the most widely ...

Beginning this semester, Pitt students have the opportunity to immerse themselves in two new African languages, with one more on the way in the spring. The new funding also helped create a new African ...