Analysis in the Field of the Humanities

This Humanities section features articles in the fields of Religion, Languages, Media Studies, to name but a few.

The African Renaissance and the Use of African Languages in Tertiary Education

This work by Dr. Neville Alexander deals with the social, political and economic implications of the intellectualisation of indigenous African languages and suggests a long-term, large-scale and systematic strategy for effecting this core aspect of the... |+| read article

Kum'a Ndumbe III: Aturar el genocidi intelectual a les universitats africanes

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Prof. Kum'a Ndumbe III's article on "Stopping intellectual genocide in African universities" has been published in Catalan in the journal "Cataluna Esperantisto", No 344, Oktobro-Decembro 2007, pp. 19-23. |+| read article

Linguistic diversity in South Africa and the challenges of the African Renaissance

Paper presented by Dr. Neville Alexander at the South African Embassy in Berlin on the 20th November 2007. One of the main points of his presentation was: How do we assist in the decolonisation of the mind of the billions of people who are held in thrall by... |+| read article

Language, liberation and development

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Is there a connection between language and the enslavement or liberty of a people and their capacity for development? In this article, Prince Kum’a Ndumbe III elucidates this question and describes the approaches of the AfricAvenir Foundation to raise... |+| read article

Stopping intellectual genocide in African universities

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'You have not mastered the white people’s foreign tongue? Then you do not have the right to education in your own country, not even at primary school. You have no right to any worthwhile education, however brilliant you are.' Prince Kum’a Ndumbe III calls on... |+| read article

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