Indigenous Languages

Maputo, Mozambique is currently hosting a two-day international conference on Indigenous Languages, with the aim of promoting Southern African dialects. While colonial languages such as English and Portuguese are normally used as main languages for business and education, but local dialects such as Shona and Zulu have been demoted to home languages. To help us investigate the situation we have Professor Sozinho Matsinhe, Africa, Professor Ekkehard Wolff Who held the position of Chair for African linguistics at Germany's University of Leipzig, Professor Leketi Makalela, Head of the Division of Languages, Literacies at the University of the Witwatersrand, and Professor David Mosoma Deputy Chairperson of the South African based RL Rights Commission: