The Amazing Languages of Africa

By Dave Huxtable on

Africa is home to amazing languages. In this entertaining video, I go on a linguistic safari around the languages of Africa, exploring their complex grammar, magnificent array of speech sounds (including the unique click consonants) and some of their home-grown writing systems. Semitic languages span three continents and I look at how Amharic, the main language of Ethiopia, changes verbs at the b… Read More

Black History Month – expanding the narrative

By Dave Huxtable on

Black History Month is celebrated in February in the United States and Canada, and in October in the UK and the Netherlands. Beyond slavery, oppression and a nice lady on a bus I am struck by how many accounts focus on the history of black people in the United States to the exclusion of the rest of the world. They are almost exclusively about passivity and victimhood, ended by the actions of cha… Read More