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Tongue and talk: Keeping language alive in Africa

Tongue and talk: Keeping language alive in Africa

11/5/2024 · 48:47
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Ghanaian journalist Justice Baidoo is teaching his young children how to speak the ancient African language of Ahanta. He home schools them with lessons several times a week in an effort to keep the indigenous language alive in a continent where many are disappearing due to the over dominance of English and French, and in more recent years the added power of American culture through mass media, online and through mobile phones. Justice travels across Ghana to hear how locals are trying to revive the language of Animere in the Kecheibe and Kunda villages by setting up a radio station and running regular dedicated church services attracting a one-thousand-strong congregation. Other languages under threat include Twi, Ewe, Ga, Fanti. Waala and Frafra.

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