Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The governing African National Congress (ANC) held a rally in Sharpeville ...

The African Next Voices project has started out with sites in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa. Iuliia Anisimova/iStock Language is how we interact, ask for help, and hold meaning in community. We use ...

Although Africa is home to a huge proportion of the world's languages – well over a quarter according to some estimates - many are missing when it comes to the development of AI. This is both an issue ...

Ryanair made Dinesh Joseph take a test in Afrikaans when flying back from a vacation. The airline has said it is issuing the tests to guard against fraudulent South African passports. This is how ...

JOHANNESBURG/TULSA, April 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The words "facemask" and "hand sanitiser" are now familiar the world over, but for isiZulu speakers in South Africa those terms did not exist ...

Johannesburg — Shocked South Africans have taken to social media to voice their outrage that Ryanair is making some passengers take a test in Afrikaans in order to fly. Last week, the airline started ...

University of the Free State provides funding as a partner of The Conversation AFRICA. Sign language is on its way to become the 12th official language in South Africa after parliament recently agreed ...

When Andiswa Gebashe was growing up in Soweto in the 1990s, she had two dreams. "I wanted to be an actor, and I wanted to be the president," she says. Today, improbably, she is both – thought not ...

Meet Qhawekazi Mazaleni, the 24-year-old speech and language therapist from Gonubie in the Eastern Cape who walked away with ...