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FYI, BBC has a webpage and form for contributions in advance
of a program it plans to air tomorrow 6 September on African languages on
Wikipedia. The topic from the webpage http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5072596.stm
is copied below. Thanks to Ndesanjo Macha and Martin Benjamin for posting about
this on the AfrophoneWikis list. DZO Are African languages important? African languages like Swahili, Yoruba and Somali are now
available to read on the internet based encyclopaedia, Wikipedia. The website
aims to give every single person an encyclopaedia in their own language no
matter how rare and features everything from recipes to biographies. But Wikipedia is dominated by articles written in English
for which there are over one million entries. Compare that to African languages
where there are just a handful of entries. Swahili is the most widely spoken
African language available in text on the net, but in general the presence of
African languages is dismal compared to languages spoken in the West. So, how important is to be able to read, write and speak in
an African language?. Is English now the most important language in the world?.
Should people in the developing world still be taught local languages and are
they useful for everyday life?. Send us your views and experiences using the form on the
right. Or you can send us an SMS text message to +44 77 86 20 20 08. If you
would like to take part in the Africa Have Your Say radio programme on
Wednesday 6 at 1600 GMT, please include a telephone number. It will not be
published.
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