Check out a new series of webinars on Language Policy in Africa, hosted by the University of Bern (Switzerland): https://initiativeafrique.unibe.ch/news_and_events/events/upcoming_events/index_eng.html

The first of these webinars will be on 3 October, from 4 to 5 pm CEST (Berlin, Johannesburg, Khartoum, Lusaka, Madrid). Speaker will be Caroline Story from Texas State University, who will discuss her article “Postcolonial Language Imperialism in Africa – The Latter-day Saints Missionary Program.” She will explore how and why missionaries are trained to do their work using certain languages, and not others.

The session will be moderated by Djouroukoro Diallo of the University of Bern.

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
Applied Linguistics
Sociolinguistics