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FLTA Alibaba Sanchi promotes Hausa language and culture

Posted on December 6, 2016

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 …

Posted in News, UncategorizedTagged FLTA, Hausa, Nigeria

Contesting Language Use in the “Wild”: A Critical Study of Multilingualism in Southwest Nigeria

Posted on October 27, 2016

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,” …

Posted in UncategorizedTagged graduate student colloquium, multilingualism, Nigeria

News from Kazeem Sanuth

Posted on December 15, 2015

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 …

Posted in News, UncategorizedTagged alumni, kazeem sanuth, Nigeria

Conversations: Nigerian Political Cartoons

Posted on October 9, 2015

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 …

Posted in UncategorizedTagged Africa at Noon, cartoons, Nigeria, tejumola olaniyan

Spotlight on Hausa

Posted on May 16, 2014

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.

Posted in News, UncategorizedTagged African languages, Hausa, Nigeria

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