When Black Panther hit theaters in 2018, the excitement was palpable. Aside from the fact that it was the first big-budget ...

The Competition Commission released the final report of its Media and Digital Platforms Market Inquiry (MDPMI) today.

When a team of researchers from the University of Maryland, Microsoft, and UMass Amherst set out to explore how artificial ...

If Arabic from Syria to Mauritania and from Morocco to the Comoros can be treated as one language, then the present ...

Meaning “Chumba cha kulala wageni” means “guest bedroom” or “guest room” in English. Chumba = room Cha = of / belonging to ...

Welcome to this seminar which combines two short presentations on African languages in one slot. Abebe Keno Gonfa (Ethiopia) will present his ongoing work on “Case markers in Bayso (Cushitic)” and ...

Despite being thousands of kilometres apart, the Kikuyu and Shona communities share remarkable similarities in their language, culture, traditions, and historical experiences. 20 Kikuyu words, phrases ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 119, No. 32 (August 9, 2022), pp. 1-9 (9 pages) The Bantu expansion transformed the linguistic, economic, and ...

ABSTRACT: Rightly considered as the immovable source of all material wealth, land has always been an invaluable asset in Africa currently retaining 52% of the world’s remaining arable land.

In many languages across the world, speakers use intonation to focus on relevant information: ‘Father cooked the sauce’. Speakers may also use a specific sentence structure to mark focus: ‘It was ...