African stories and languages could unlock billions for the continent's publishing industry if governments back local writers, a Unesco report has found. Africa's book market, now worth $7 billion, ...

Less than 2% of Africa’s estimated 2000 languages have a real online presence, including in localized software and websites, ...

Governments use digital platforms to communicate with society but, on a continent with more than 2  000 languages, it remains ...

Africa is home to an astonishingly diverse array of languages, each reflecting the continent's rich cultural and historical fabric. At first glance, the map of Africa’s many languages may seem ...

The first World Kiswahili Language Day was celebrated in 2022. On the occasion of World Kiswahili Language Day at UNESCO, the ...

On the occasion of World Kiswahili Language Day at UNESCO, the Permanent Delegations of East African Member States to UNESCO, ...

The death of Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o in May 2025 raises the question of his influence in French-speaking Africa: how ...

As the AI revolution transforms the digital world, millions of people on the African continent cannot tap its full promise because the languages they speak aren’t built into the large language models ...

Ngũgĩ would be remembered as a “passionate believer of the central phrase of African languages in literature,” Soyinka told The Associated Press. “He believed that the literature needs to be as much ...