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<div><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">Dear </span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">Colleagues</span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">,</span></font><br>
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<font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">I'm very excited to share the draft programme for </span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">the </span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">upcoming annual BAAL </span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">Language
in Africa SIG </span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">conference which </span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">will be held on the </span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><b>11th of May </b></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">at
SOAS, University of London. The programme can be accessed on our website <a href="https://liasig.wordpress.com/programme-2018/" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk644959" previewremoved="true">
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<font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">This year's conference theme is </span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><i>African Languages in Public Spaces: Opportunities and Challenges.</i></span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"> We
have an exciting range of speakers who will be discussing language in Africa across a number of countries including: South Africa, Malawi, Uganda, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Sudan, Algeria and Egypt.</span></font><br>
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<font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">We are also delighted to welcome Professor Leketi Makalela as our plenary speaker who will deliver his talk 'Re-imagining multilingualism as a cultural competence in Africa: leaking boundaries, ubuntu and multilanguaging
in public spaces'.</span></font><br>
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<font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">You can register for the conference </span></font><a href="https://liasig.wordpress.com/registration/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" id="LPlnk353583" previewremoved="true"><font color="#1155CC"><span id="LPlnk353583"><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">here</span></font></span></font></a><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">.
The registration deadline for the conference is </span></font><font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt"><b>30th April.</b></span></font><br>
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<font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">Hope to see you there!</span></font><br>
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<font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">Best wishes,</span></font><br>
<font size="3"><span style="font-size:12pt">Colin</span></font>
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British Association for Applied Linguistics<br>
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