Minah Nabirye and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver talk language politics at the 3rd LAEA conference in Kampala, Uganda

At the 3rd Conference of the Language Association of Eastern Africa, which was held at Makerere University, in Kampala, Uganda, on 15 and 16 August 2023, Dr. Minah Nabirye presented a paper titled ‘Made in Uganda’, and Prof. Gilles-Maurice de Schryver dealt with its counterpart: ‘Broken in Uganda’. While Minah focused on solutions to overcome bottlenecks in producing language materials for Lusoga, Gilles-Maurice took a more critical stance with three Lusoga case studies to point out the rampant kleptocracy at Uganda’s National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC), which hampers any meaningful empowerment of the African languages.


Minah Nabirye: Made in Uganda


Gilles-Maurice de Schryver: Broken in Uganda


Menha Publishers at 3rd LAEA