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This month’s question is: “Let’s pretend that your mother tongue has never been written before and that you’ve been asked to design a system of writing for it. Would you use an existing system? What kind of orthography would you create? Feel free to draw a few characters of your imagined alphabet or some example text for us to show as a visual aid while you speak.”

This month’s question is: “What is one African theory, theoretician, or philosophy that you think has great potential for applying to research or education, and why?”

This month’s question is: “What is your favorite genre or subgenre of African poetry, where does it come from, and what’s so unique about it?”

This month’s question is: “Often we think of language and place being bound up together. Do you know of any examples that challenge this notion? How does this allow us to think about languages differently?”