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<p style="box-sizing:border-box">Via LANGPOL...</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box">Save the date: Monday 27
November webinar, 15:00 - 16:30 CET (Amsterdam, Yaoundé) (this
is 10 am in New York; 2 pm Accra and London; 4 pm Johannesburg;
5 pm Nairobi).</p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box">Presenter: Dr Seraphin Kamdem,
SOAS, University of London (UK)<br>
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This webinar is the last this year of the series organised by
the <a href="https://afrilang.wixsite.com/afrilang" target="_blank">Edinburgh Circle
on the Promotion of African Languages</a> together with the <a href="https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/humanities/leiden-university-centre-for-linguistics" target="_blank">Leiden
University Centre for Linguistics</a>. See abstract below. <br>
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<p style="box-sizing:border-box">Zoom link (registration not
necessary): <a href="https://universiteitleiden.zoom.us/j/63863239013?pwd=THNraXpKM3U5cXRIOU1HSDAvZDM3UT09" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-color:transparent;color:rgb(7,96,183);text-decoration:underline" target="_blank">https://universiteitleiden.zoom.us/j/63863239013?pwd=THNraXpKM3U5cXRIOU1HSDAvZDM3UT09</a><br style="box-sizing:border-box">
Meeting ID: 638 6323 9013. Passcode: pAkt*fW1</p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box">Enjoy,</p>
<p style="box-sizing:border-box">Bert<br>
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<b>Cameroon: 273 local languages, French, English, German,
Spanish, CamPidgin, and many others all together; Forging new
multilingual language policies</b><br>
27 November 2023<br>
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Cameroon is considered by many as ‘Africa in miniature’ because of
its high diversity in terms of its natural landscape and
geography, its human composition, and especially the many
languages making up its multilingual landscape. However, the
language policies borne out of a colonial agenda of division and
exploitation ensure that the local languages are excluded as
languages of teaching from the education system and from most of
the public domains and spaces.<br>
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But how has the implementation of language policies inherited from
colonial times impacted the evolution of local languages in their
use in education and public communication?<br>
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After giving a brief overview of the multilingual ‘ecosystem’ of
Cameroon, this presentation will provide an account of the
development in language policies in Cameroon, while examining
critically the challenges faced in the actual implementation of
some of those policies. The presenter will also provide some
information on some recent grassroots efforts, educational
changes, and advocacy work that are trying to bring about some
significant changes in the Cameroonian educational sectors, in a
bid to bring about more linguistic justice and more empowerment of
local languages so that they can better fulfill their necessary
roles as tools and resources for sustainable development, and for
an education system that does not perpetuate the declining
intergenerational transmission of local languages and cultures.</div>
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