On Monday 5 December, Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistant (FLTA) Alibaba Sanchi took part in an outreach program at an international celebration for kids and their families held at Kennedy Elementary School located in Madison …
Nigeria
Contesting Language Use in the “Wild”: A Critical Study of Multilingualism in Southwest Nigeria
Graduate Student Colloquium Presenter: Adeola Agoke (Chair: Dr. Katrina Daly Thompson) Thursday, November 312:00p.m-1:00p.mVan Hise 1418 While it is true that linguistic register of formal domains are markedly differentiated from language use in the “wild,” …
News from Kazeem Sanuth
Kazeem Sanuth, an alumnus of our MA program, is now a doctoral student in Second Language Acquisition, still here at UW-Madison, and recently sent news to SLA’s newsletter, Second Language Acquisition News Gazetee (SLANG). Read …
Conversations: Nigerian Political Cartoons
Africa at Noon on October 14, 2015 Time and Location 12:00pm, 206 Ingraham Hall, 1155 Observatory Drive, Madison, WI Description Department chair Teju Olaniyan, in conversation with Nigerian cartoonist Ganiyu A. Jimoh (JIMGA), takes a …
Spotlight on Hausa
In Fall 2014 we will start offering Hausa gain after a few years’ hiatus. Check out the African Studies Program’s course spotlight, and our own Hausa page to learn more.