(1 video; 13 papers, 9 with)

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Long abstract:
There is an old (and sometimes fierce) debate in Africa about the use of language in teaching, reading materials, literature/music and in scholarly communication: between English/French/Portuguese/Arabic/German and/or African 'indigenous' languages. In African universities there is a history of waves of collaboration and non-collaboration between indigenous and foreign language based studies in African institutions (e.g. Yoruba Studies vs English Studies), with implication for the transmission or obstruction of African knowledge: how have studies in indigenous and foreign languages been working to promote or transform indigenous African knowledge, or have they been working at cross purposes in this area? And how important is the study of 'ancient African texts' and written and oral material in African languages in Africa's universities?

13 Accepted papers:
1	Leaving behind the mask: The stylistics of Nigerian sexual diversity and homophobic discourse in the digital media
2	Culture and language - empowering and disempowering ideas
3	Alter/natives and im/perfect futures: education sites and communication for transformative democracy
4	Linguistic and cultural barriers to learning and development in Africa
5	'Let's all blame the government': language and identity issues and ideological framing in homosexuality narratives on Nigerian Twitter
6	Language and educational policies and the 'postcolonial' state in Africa
7	The Amharic language: history of its use in Ethiopia and peculiarities of Ethiopia's language policy
8	Indigenising language for universal use in Nigeria
9	Nigerian 'duelling' languages and the backlash phenomenon: prognosis for the resurgence of indigenous languages
10	Minority languages and Higher education in Africa: with special reference to Tamazight in North Africa
11	Quatre langues, quatre afriques: multilinguisme et heterogeneite demographique de l'afrique
12	Mandarin in Lagos schools: emerging online perspectives
13	Yoruba slangs in students' narratives in Lagos: a linguistic and sociocultural implication