While language is something that usually divides people, the World Cup is an event that undoubtedly brings the world together. And for global brands, in particular, the World Cup presents a huge opportunity to engage new and existing consumers. The…
Various African initiatives have been developed to encourage governments to make greater use of African languages, including in the education system. ACALAN has identified 12 cross-border languages for use in regions across the continent, together with inherited ex-colonial languages. Examples…
If you wish to prevent translation errors, it is best to leave it in the hands of a trained professional. If you prefer to manage different languages internally, you can outsource the translations to a local office. This way, you…
In many Sub-Saharan African countries, English becomes the official language of instruction at a relatively early stage in a child’s education, often with confusing effects. According to the British Council's Tony Calderbank, the African child normally starts to struggle at school…
Uganda’s President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni is calling upon Africans to preserve their indigenous languages by writing books because they are much richer than European languages. According to Museveni, the Bantu dialects and other African languages are much richer and more…
Earlier in May, Google announced that Google Translate, its multilingual neural machine translation service, has begun offering the possibility of translation into 24 more languages. Ten of the new additions are African languages. Google software engineer and researcher Isaac Caswell…
The newly released data from the US Census Bureau indicates that African languages are among the top ten fastest-growing languages spoken at homes in the United States. Recently, Global tech giant Google added 24 new languages spoken by more than…
Over 263 million of the population of East African Africa, authoritatively speak Kiswahili as a binding language to execute their day-to-day activities in business. Across borders within the region, the key opportunities to the population of over 300 million people…