The following is a summary of the online article “Africa Rising” that appeared in The Economist on December 3, 2011. Despite Africa’s long history of corruption, violence, famine and disease, the continent is on the economic rise. As discussed in the previous article “Region Change Through Word Exchange,” over the past decade six of the […]
Africa is home to roughly 10% of the world’s population and, according to a recent United Nations report, contains 10 of the world’s fastest-growing economies. This large, fast developing region, however, is still highly fragmented: • There are 2,000 spoken languages within Africa. (Nigeria alone has more than 500.) • The media use at least […]
In 1958, there were just four official languages of the European Economic Community (which was the first iteration of today’s European Union, or EU): Dutch, German, Italian and French. These languages represented the languages of the first six countries to join the Community. Today, European Union membership has been extended to countries beyond typical Western […]
