Athol Fugard, South African Playwright Who Spoke to Worldwide Audiences, Dies at 92
Athol Fugard, the South African playwright of works including 'The Road to Mecca,' and 'Boesman and Lena' died on Saturday.
How many languages can babies learn? Study shows how Ghanaian babies grow up speaking two to six languages
Africa is a multilingual continent and many adults speak several languages fluently. An empirical study by a research team ...
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Multilingualism Starts Early: Study Challenges View on Language Learning
A new study of 121 infants in Accra, Ghana, reveals that babies regularly hear between two and six languages from multiple ...
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Emphasis on French and English accelerates decline of local language in Benin
Fongbe (Fon) is the most widely-spoken local language in Southern Benin but this language is gradually losing its place as a ...
Athol Fugard, South Africa’s Giant Playwright, Dies at 92
South Africa “has lost one of its greatest literary and theatrical icons, whose work shaped the cultural and social landscape ...
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East African with an American twist: New restaurant serves up fusion food in St. Cloud
The restaurant at the Midtown Square Mall offers many traditional east African dishes, some with an American twist.
South Africa’s giant playwright Athol Fugard, whose searing works challenged apartheid, dies aged 92
Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as “The ...
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How many languages can you learn at the same time? -- Ghanaian babies grow up speaking two to six languages
Africa is a multilingual continent and many adults speak several languages fluently. An empirical study by a psycholinguist now shows that the roots of this multilingualism can be found in infancy: In ...
A South African play about Winnie Madikizela-Mandela explores Black women's long wait for absent men
A new play about anti-apartheid icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela seeks to highlight the struggles of Black women in South ...
No end to language war in India
Most pained by the north-south divide were those who fell in love outside their language of heritage and were ostracised ...
Trump declared English the official language of the US. Now what?
About 68 million Americans speak a language other than English at home. The vast majority, 241 million, speak English and no ...
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Siddis of India—a Unique Community Moves Into the Mainstream With Tourist Venture
The Siddi community, descendants of slaves from Africa, is now becoming more involved with mainstream enterprises, including a forest homestay venture ...