Professor John Mugane to join the Panel Discussion on Languages and Archives in Knowledge Production About Africa
Adebayo Ajadi
Professor John Mugane to join the Panel Discussion on
Languages and Archives in Knowledge Production About Africa, March 3, 2024
John Mugane is the Professor of the Practice of African Languages and Cultures at Harvard University and the Director of the African Language Program. Mugane's research focuses on African Languages and Linguistics. He has directed the language program since 2003 developing the teaching of African languages and cultures, while creating the world's foremost African language program with more than twenty different languages taught each semester. The ALP offers instruction and creates resources for not only indigenous African Languages, but also for African Pidgins and Creoles—including Sierra Leonean Krio, Cameroonian Pidgin, and Nigerian English—as well as the languages of the black diaspora—including Gullah-Geechee, Jamaican Patois, and Haitian Creole. Mugane also does work on African languages in the disciplines and professions for which he, together with African colleagues have in the pre and post COVID years has, with support from Harvard's Center for African Studies and Harvard’s Weatherhead Center, convened annual conferences at Harvard, Bamako, Conackry and more recently at the United States International University (USIU) in Nairobi and the University of Nairobi School of Law in Kenya. Prof. Mugane has authored numerous peer reviewed papers, and written several books and book chapters. His latest book is The Story of Swahili by Ohio University Press (See The Conversation). Together with a team of others, Prof Mugane is currently, working on Thiomi-Lugha project which is a Natural Language Processing initiative for Africa’s languages in the field of Artificial Intelligence whose aim is to make African environments (courtrooms, schools, hospitals, political spaces, entrepreneurial spaces, religious spaces etc.) linguistically accessible to Africans and the world.
The Story of Swahili by Ohio University Press
African Languages in the disciplines and professions -The Great Debate
The Neville Alexander Lectures: The Many Accents of Justice
Sunday, March 3, 2024
5 PM Nigeria
10 AM Austin
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