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Since the beginning of the year, the Executive Director, Mr. Prince M. Obiri-Mainoo has been conducting a weekly online Twi language class as part of National Africa Foundation's (NAF) goal of helping to internationalize African languages on campuses around the world, especially at the United States and Canadian Universities. Letters and emails were sent out to selected universities and colleges with departments in African Studies and Foreign Languages in an attempt to raise awareness about the teaching of African Languages. As if by design, he was invited to take up a Twi Language teaching position with the African Languages Program at the Department of African and African American Stuides at the prestigeous Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The executive director has consulted with some Ghanaian and other African educators and nationals capable of teaching some selected African languages at the college level and to call them in as tutors as soon as there is a nod from some of these open-minded universities. This is to say that NAF is preparing teachers to teach African languages. In addition to Harvard, MIT, Boston University and the Northeastern University, all in Boston have African language programs. This move to promote the teaching of African languages looks bright in the months and years ahead. Other universities in and around the city of Worcester where the executive director resides such as Worcester State College, Clark University, College of the Holy Cross and Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have been short-listed among several universities in the city to offer courses in African language. African students are not being left out in this initiative. Mac's Vision International (MVI) which has now become part of NAF is being organized to run week-end programs and camps for high school students and graduates to prepare them for fruitful university experience. We hope that this move to promote the teaching/learning of African languages on American university campuses would go a long way to bring dignity, confidence and respect to African immigrant studentson American university campuses. |