Department of African Languages and Cultures
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Conference "Language – Culture – Literature: East African Perspective"
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Africa Days 2019
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Visits Yakubu Magaji
October - November, 2008 – Yakubu Magaji Azare, M.A., from the Department of Nigerian Languages, Bayero University, Kano was attached to the Department and continued his research on „A Morpho-Semantic Study of Hausa Concrete Deverbal Forms”. On 20th October he presented the results of his work during the staff meeting.
more »Visits Dr. Jean de Dieu Karangwa
April, 2009 (Erasmus visit) – Dr. Jean de Dieu Karangwa from INALCO in Paris presented lectures on “Language and Identity in Rwanda” and "The Swahili Language".
more »Visits Prof. Lionel Posthumus
May, 2009 – Prof. Lionel Posthumus from the University of Johannesburgu (SA) presented the following lectures during his stay at our Department: "Afrikaans as a creole language”, "Language Planning and Language Usage in South Africa", "Tense Systems of the Bantu languages".
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December 2009 - In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the African Studies at the University of Warsaw the Department organised a one-day session Languages, cultures and societies of Africa in the process of transformation.
more »Visits Dr. George Alao
April, 2010 – Dr. George Alao from INALCO, Paris, was our guest and during his stay he presented lectures on "Languages, Multiculturalism and Nation-building: the Nigerian Experience", "Politeness among the Yoruba and in the Yoruba Language and Culture", and "First-timer Approach to Learning Yoruba: a Practical Initiation Course".
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