Editor’s note: This personal essay was written following a Twitter campaign organized by Global Voices sub-Saharan Africa and Rising Voices where each week, a different language activist shared their ...

Linguists and Braille experts in Mali have translated the country’s most widely spoken African language, Bambara, into Braille for the country's blind. Bambara is spoken and understood by about 15 ...

Between April 20 to May 22, 2020, Global Voices sub-Saharan Africa in conjunction with Rising Voices hosted a Twitter conversation as part of the project, “The identity matrix: Platform regulation of ...

Bambara is the most widely spoken language in Mali, but in schools, only French is taught. A startup is trying to change that, so pupils will not only be able to speak but also read and write in their ...