African Language Study


The following programs are among those which can be considered:

  • Summer Cooperative African Language Institute (SCALI). Seven-week summer program, meeting in 2001 at U Wisconsin, Madison, 18 June – 9 August. Languages offered have included Afrikaans, Bamana [Bambara], Chichewa, Fula [Fufulde/ Pulaar], Hausa, Lingala, Setswana, Swahili, Twi, Wolof, Xhosa, Yoruba, and Zulu.
    Website: polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/afrst/scali/

  • Michigan State University, Intensive Summer Institute. Five-week intensive program in Swahili, preceded by a three-day intensive workshop on East Africa. June 19 - July 21, 2000. MSU offers numerous other African languages during the year and sometimes in the summer.
    Website: isp.msu.edu/AfricanStudies/Swahil20.htm

  • School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, SOAS Language Centre. Summer School programs in beginning Yoruba, Zulu. Hausa, Swahili, Somali, Twi, and Shona also taught.
    Website: www.soas.ac.uk/languagecentre.

  • Yale University. Seven-week summer program: intermediate-advanced intensive Zulu in South Africa. Affiliated with University of Natal-Pietermaritzburg as part of Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad. 15 June-8 August 2001.
    Website: http://www.yale.edu/zulu

  • University of Pennsylvania, African Studies Center. Seven-week summer program: advanced intensive Kiswahili course in Tanzania as part of Fulbright-Hays Group Project Abroad. 18 June-3 August 2001.
    Website: ccat.sas.upenn.edu/afl/gpa.html

  • Boston University Center for African Studies. Some summer courses as well as academic year offerings. Hausa, Mandinka/ Bambara, Sesotho/Setswana, Swahili, Yoruba, Zulu and Gikuyu (Kikuyu).
    Website: http://www.bu.edu/afr/Lang.Prog.html


 
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