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This month’s question is: “Let’s pretend that you’ve been given the opportunity to produce a theatrical performance or film adaptation of an African literary work. Which work would you choose, and what would your interpretation be like? Whom would you hire for the cast and/or crew?”

This month’s question is: “What is a question that hasn’t been posed in this format before that you think is crucial to recalibrating the study of African languages, literatures, and studies? Why do you find that question so important?”

This month’s question is: “Has a word ever crashed into your body? To put it another way, can you think of a specific situation where a word or phrase (uttered or written) affected you physiologically or emotionally? Feel free to tell your word-body crash story.”

This month’s question is: “Have you ever witnessed research on African languages having an impact on local communities? If so, tell us about it. Or, conversely, are there specific ways you can imagine this research having a greater impact on local communities?”

This month’s question is: “What is your favorite example of untranslatability (or something difficult to translate) in an African language, and what’s so interesting about it?”