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Sudan’s Struggle To Preserve Native Languages

Silenced Mother Tongues

Over the course of decades, policies in Sudan sought to use the Arabic language to paper over the country’s immense ethnic and linguistic diversity. While the situation may now be improving, native speakers of languages like Fulani have dwindled, and many individuals have been cut off from their roots.

How the Idea of ‘India’ Came About

How the Idea of ‘India’ Came About

For the Mughal rulers, whose control covered much of the subcontinent, India could be imagined as something close to a unified state. However, for the millions of people beneath their rule, no sense of a “nation” or being part of “India” is evident.