I am an unapologetic soutie and have always considered Afrikaans a mere vestigial form of Dutch that post-1994 should have shriveled up or fallen off on its own. That has not happened, yet. But ...

South African poet, author and essayist Antjie Krog is technically the first non-Dutch speaking recipient of die Gouden Ganzenveer (the golden goose feather), awarded during a moving ceremony in ...

Research in African Literatures, founded in 1970, is the premier journal of African literary studies worldwide and provides a forum in English for research on the oral and written literatures of ...

Twenty-year-old Alex Rawlings has won a national competition to find the UK's most multi-lingual student. The Oxford University undergraduate can currently speak 11 languages - English, Greek, German, ...