The School of African Languages

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During the transatlantic slave trade, enslaved Africans preserved their spiritual traditions by blending them with Catholicism and local beliefs, giving rise to new religions: Santería in Cuba, Candomblé in Brazil, and Vodou in Haiti, all rooted in Yoruba and related West Africa

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Yoruba refers to both an ethnolinguistic group and the traditional religion that originates from the Yoruba people of southwestern Nigeria (as well as parts of Benin and Togo).

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Madagascar’s Malagasy isn’t African in origin, it’s Austronesian 🌏.

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Swahili is Africa’s most taught language worldwide 🌍. From Beijing to New York, classrooms echo with “Habari gani?”
Is that our hint to start learning Swahili??

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Did you hear about Somalia rolling out Swahili in schools??
How true is this???

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What's your thoughts on this:

Diaspora languages = survival & resistance 🌎
Languages such as:
Jamaican Patois
Haitian Creole
Gullah
Are all rooted in African languages.
🤔
We'd love to hear your thoughts.

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🧵 The Afroasiatic family is divided into 6 key branches including Omotic and Semitic. Languages such as:
Arabic
Somali
Hausa
Amharic
Connecting Africa and the Middle East for millennia.

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Igbo, Yoruba & Hausa = spoken by 100M+ people. Imagine the stories, songs & proverbs exchanged daily! 🖤 #BlackHistoryMonth

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Every African language carries a worldview 🌍✨ Not just words, but wisdom. Learn one this month → https://t.co/cnSXlDPnQd

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🧵 Why Africa is the world’s most linguistically diverse continent 👇
Thousands of languages
Migration reshaped speech
Oral traditions preserved history
Colonisation added layers

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French 🇫🇷 is spoken in 31 African countries, but no two sound the same. From Congolese slang to Ivorian French, Africa makes it its own.

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So, you've been wanting to learn a new language for so long. What's your excuse now??
Which language have you been putting off and why?

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The whole team is learning Swahili with our amazing tutor Mr Otieno. Ooh, what Swahili words do u know?

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As an African language school, all the staff and tutors are learning new languages together. A school that learns together, stays together.🙏🏾❤️

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Anyone else tired of the divisive conversation between Africans and the FBA/Black Americans being highlighted?
What is the solution, or is this the way we need to hash it out before moving on as a unit?

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Why not do something daring this month.
We challenge 5 people to sign up to our Lingala language course starting in August.
It may not have been on your bingo card for 2025. But, why not??

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I'm sure some people will get our humour, others will just keep on swiping and miss out on the fun.
Well, I guess not everything is for everyone and that's just fine.

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Never really got the hang of twitter and now it's X, it's like starting from A, all over again 😂

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Sometimes you have to show off your language skills and just randomly speak in a different language. How did that work for you??

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What's happened to language learning? Is it still a thing for people to learn about cultures from around the world. Or do we just Google everything?