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Podcast: Nimdzi LIVE!
Episode: 5 Ways Publishers can promote African Languages feat. Christian Elongué
Description: Preserving and promoting African languages is the responsibility of every African; writers, speakers, publishers, and African language teachers. The publisher’s role in fostering African languages is indispensable. Aside from increasing publishing in African languages, we also suggest that:- Language policy debate should be depoliticized.- There should be incentives to train and deploy more teachers of African languages.- Students should have greater choice to be examined in standards of their languages.- The state should assist with translation services (the most significant cost faced by the industry) to facilitate investment by pu...