It’s 50 years since the Soweto uprising in South Africa. On 16 June 1976, tens of thousands of young black South Africans protested against being taught in the Afrikaans language (alongside English) ...

Why have students of African languages diminished so drastically in the post-apartheid period? Is this because of the dominance of English, coupled with the dynamics of globalisation? First, I don’t ...

Prince A. Williams ’25, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a History concentrator in Adams House. Before my sophomore year, I was terrified of deciding what foreign language to take. The idea of learning ...

Cape Town woman advocates for white South Africans to learn isiXhosa, isiZulu or isiNdebele, sparking national dialogue on language integration and unity.

AI models can’t understand African languages. Lelapa AI is trying to change that. Inside a co-working space in the Rosebank neighborhood of Johannesburg, Jade Abbott popped open a tab on her computer ...

African telecoms ministers have backed ATLAS Umoja AI, a pan-African initiative to build AI models and services around African languages and digital inclusion.

In South African higher education, multilingualism and language policy have emerged as both a reflection of the country’s constitutional commitment to linguistic diversity and a site of pedagogical ...

Combining content learning and language skills is a boon for academic performance. Epicurean In recent years there’s been growing recognition among education experts that integrating content and ...