25.1062, A Second Trip in Sub Saharan Africa!

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LINGUIST List: Vol-25-1062. Tue Mar 04 2014. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 25.1062, A Second Trip in Sub Saharan Africa!

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Subject: A Second Trip in Sub Saharan Africa!

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Region 3 | Sub-Saharan Africa | Fund Drive 2014

Our sub-Saharan adventure takes us now to South Africa. Bursting with energy
and curiosity, we fly into “the Jacaranda City,” a nickname Pretoria earned
from the thousands of trees that color the city purple.

We waste no time in visiting National Zoological Gardens of South Africa, a
zoo in Pretoria with more than 700 different animal species. We are eager to
see the odd-looking Okapi, the well-dressed Black-footed Penguin, and of
course, the famous big cats of Africa (but from a safe distance!)

>From the zoo we drop in to visit Pan South African Language Board (PanSALB),
an organization established to protect multilingualism and languages rights by
an Act of parliament in 1995. In their Pretoria office, we hear about
PanSALB’s field trips for the End Poverty Campaign, as well as the success of
the recent Provincial Language Indaba, held in partnership with the University
of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.

After visiting PanSALB, we head north to the Cradle of Humankind, a UNESCO
World Heritage Site. These are the caves and plains where archaeologists
unearthed some of the oldest hominin fossils ever found, some dating back as
far as 3.5 million years ago.

As we explore, we ponder whether this really was the cradle of humanity, and
if, perhaps, human language took its first steps here as well. We are broken
from our reverie by the setting sun, and we remember that Africa has so many
more sites for us to explore. We rush back to the airport to ready ourselves
for the next excursion.

Join us on our next trip later this week. In the mean time, don't forget to
check out the featured linguists
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our region 3 trips (http://linguistlist.org/fund-drive/2014/region3.php), and
donate (https://linguistlist.org/donation/donate/donate1.cfm).

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