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The Language of Languages: Reflections on Translation by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Topics
#translation, #literarytranslation, #linguistics, #sociolinguistics, #colonialism, #Africanlanguages, #PanAfricanism, #languagepolicy, #languagepolicies

With clear, conversational prose, this is the first book dedicated entirely to Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s writings on translation.

Through his many critically acclaimed novels, stories, essays, plays, and memoirs, Kenyan writer Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o has been at the forefront of world literature for decades. He has also been, in his own words, “a language warrior,” fighting for indigenous African languages to find their rightful place in the literary world. Having begun his writing career in English, Ngũgĩ shifted to writing in his native language Gikũyũ in 1977, a stance both creatively and politically significant. For decades now, Ngũgĩ has been translating his Gikũyũ works into English himself, and he has used many platforms to champion the practice and cause of literary translations, which he calls “the language of languages.”

નરેન્દ્ર મોદી (Narendra Modi) and the Bharatiya Janaya Party continue their Hindutva tendencies by imposing Hindi in India: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/dec/25/threat-unity-anger-over-push-make-hindi-national-language-of-india

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Exciting news just in before Christmas: @BonacinaPugh_F@twitter.com and I will chair a symposium on #languagepolicy at @BAAL2023York@twitter.com. Abstracts for contributions to the symposium can be submitted between Jan 30th-Mar 17th. Please share widely ;) @IAMultilingual@twitter.com @langpolicy@twitter.com @IRAAL_Ireland@twitter.com

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/TobySchroedler/status/1605880816835313664

Not read this article yet but it looks interesting - about covert language policy in UK https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14664208.2022.2150497#.Y5S91lirVzs.twitter #LanguagePolicy #UK

#introduction I'm a higher education researcher, with an applied linguistics background. I've been studying higher education policies with different language approaches - language policies of higher education, internationalisation of higher education, new nationalism in higher education. Recently I've started to be more interested in Academic work and academic wellbeing, trying to take a critical look at those. #HigherEducation #LanguagePolicy #NewNationalism #Internationalisation

More about me…academic interests include #IndigenousMethodologies #languagepolicy #languageplanning #nativemuseums #IndigenousArchaeology #TribalMuseums #TribalLibraries #culturalappropriation #HeritagePreservation #IndigenousArtists #NativeArtists #repatriation #sacredsites #ANCSA #SelfDetermination #tribalsovereignty …looking for more people to follow with similar interests. Quyanaa!

right. thinkin' about doing a #PhD in #LanguagePolicy / #LanguagePlanning with regards to #Welsh... need to dream up some kinda project, though... which is something i've always been kinda bad at