International Mother Language Day

Episode 275 of the African Dialogue podcast, hosted by Channel Africa, titled "International Mother Language Day" was published on February 18, 2016 and runs 57 minutes.

February 18, 2016 ·57m · African Dialogue

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The United Nations' (UN) International Mother Language Day annually celebrates language diversity and variety worldwide on February 21. It also remembers events such as the killing of four students on February 21, 1952, because they campaigned to officially use their mother language, Bengali, in Bangladesh. So today we look at whether there is still space for mother language in this forever changing world, be it professionally or socially. African Dialogue’s Benjamin Moshatama spoke to
Dr Thabo Ditsele senior lecturer at Tshwane University of Technology’s Department of Applied Languages, Ms Ntsiki Mazwai a Poet & Activist and Carrien Bloem, the project coordinator at Afri-Forum.

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