Introducing SIL Africa Learning & Development’s New(ish) Website!
/If you’ve never visited the continent of Africa yourself, you may have some misconceptions about it. Perhaps you didn’t even know it was a continent (not a country)!
Africa is the second largest and second most populous continent on the planet. It’s a place of endless variety and well worth knowing about, filled with not just the pyramids and elephants you’ve seen on television, but also bustling urban centers where innovation and business continue to grow in leaps and bounds.
One great way to explore the many countries of Africa is through their beautiful and varied languages. And there’s no better organization for gaining insight into those languages than our friends over at SIL Africa Learning & Development.
A couple of months ago, SIL Africa unveiled a new website, which can be found at THIS LINK.
With SIL’s authoritative ethnologue open in one tab* and this new website in another, you can explore the continent of Africa in great detail.
While the regularly updated ethnologue offers profiles for every language and country; maps of where each language is spoken; and powerful search and cross referencing tools, the new SIL Africa site will take you inside the worlds of those languages, telling the stories of SIL’s work with African communities to create language solutions that expand possibilities for a better life.Because when it comes right down to it, it’s never about languages or statistics - it’s always about people.
On the new SIL Africa Learning & Development website, you’ll find a clear breakdown of what sorts of ISSUES those people are facing, and also some of the SERVICES and SOLUTIONS that this part of the SIL organization has been offering to the area.
picture is from the SIL Africa Learning & Development website
The team behind SIL Africa Learning & Development was formed in 2010. But SIL has been active in Africa since the 1960s, and many of the insights they’ve gained as an organization in nearly eighty years of engagement filter down to this website.
The new website also features regular news and perspectives from people who aren’t just looking at Africa from the outside, but are there on the ground - actively engaging with communities across the continent as the people there work to shape an African future of their own design. We recommend you pop over, have a look, and bookmark the SIL Africa website so you can check back regularly for news and updates.
And if you’d like to learn a bit more about one of the people behind SIL Africa Learning & Development, check out our profile of SIL LEAD consultant Dr. Barbara Trudell.
*The Ethnologue is a subscription service.