US President Donald Trump praised Liberian President Joseph Boakai for his strong grasp of the English language on Wednesday.

Governments use digital platforms to communicate with society but, on a continent with more than 2  000 languages, it remains ...

A constitutionally mandated body responsible for promoting the development and use of South African languages, it recently scored a victory by having Parliament approve sign language as South ...

The South African Hindu Maha Sabha is seeking teachers for Telugu, Hindi, Tamil, Gujarati, and Sanskrit, with the aim of encouraging vernacular languages.

NEW SOUTH AFRICAN SHAKESPEARE FILM to preview at Woordfees 2023, showcasing the meeting of Shakespeare and the contemporary world in South Africa's many languages. Get a sneak peek at this ...

Ugandan IT student Andrew Njuki spent years hunched over English-language textbooks, often grappling with material that would have been easier to grasp in his mother tongue Luganda.

The sixth edition of The Mabati Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature, suspended last year due to the Covid-19 pandemic, is back.

Despite its high linguistic diversity, English and French, both International languages, are the predominant official languages for most African states. Somali, Berber, Wolof, Oromo, Igbo, Swahili, ...

Tech giants offer their products in numerous languages, but they don’t always pay attention to the nuances necessary for those apps to work in the real world. Part of the problem is that there ...