When she was a girl in South Africa’s Northern Cape, Katrina Esau stopped speaking her mother tongue, N|uu, after being mocked by other people and told it was an “ugly language.” Now at age 90, she is ...

Femi Adebayo’s film “Jagun Jagun” emerged victorious in the Best Indigenous Language Movie category at the prestigious 10th Africa Magic Viewers’ Choice Awards (AMVCA). The awards ceremony, which took ...

Africa Magic, in partnership with MultiChoice, a CANAL+ company, has opened entries for the 12th edition of the Africa Magic ...

... advocates for preservation of indigenous languagesIn a historic milestone, the Bible Society of Nigeria (BSN) has announced the production of Africa's first complete Sign Language Bible, placing ...

The Minister for Education has reaffirmed government’s unwavering commitment to integrating Ghana’s indigenous languages into ...

This story was originally published by Minority Africa and an edited version is republished on Global Voices as part of a content-sharing partnership agreement. Standing out within the Mau Forest ...

The tech giant Google announced that 15 more African languages would be added to Voice Search, Gboard talk-to-type, and Translate dictation on October 28. The languages included are Chichewa, Hausa, ...

The Federal Government has clarified that indigenous languages have not been banned in Nigerian schools, but said their use as the main medium of instruction will be limited to ensure students are ...