Google released earlier this week changes and improvements in the Google translator, which helps users to understand texts in other languages.
Besides the new look, the service has implemented tools that help in the understanding of non-Latin languages such as Chinese, Arabic or Persian. For these languages, will be offered the option “show romanization, which [...]

Deciphering the plays of William Shakespeare in a school essay was apparently not enough for two students, who wrote a book with phrases that sum up Twitter and satirical works of literature.
The “Twitterature: The World’s Greatest Books Retold Through Twitter”, which will be released by Penguin in November in the United Kingdom is a collection [...]

Ngugi wa Thiong’o successfully wrote in English but eventually turned to writing in Gikuyu, his mother tongue. He wants other writers to follow his example. ‘Decolonising the Mind’ is both an explanation of how he eventually decided to write in Gikuyu, as well as an encouragement for African writers to write in their native languages.
Ngugi [...]

The very definition of African literature can be fodder to endless debate. What qualifies as African literature, anyway? For starters, what is indigenous literature, in the first place? The polemics in the debate contains the two most important factors: is African literature about Africa or the African experience? Are the writings of an African who [...]