World Mother Language Day

Audio 29:00

DR

By: Pascal Paradou

What is the mother tongue?

Besides, should we still call it as such? 

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What role does it play in safeguarding languages?

Can we have several mother tongues? 

Guest:

Violaine Bigot, 

Sorbonne Nouvelle

lecturer

, researcher in language didactics and plurilingual socialization.

And the Elsewhere chronicle takes us to the Democratic Republic of Congo and more specifically to Goma with 

Ben Kamuntu, 

Art'iviste

Slameur committed to the promotion of education through art.

Founding member of the

Goma Slam Session Collective and

Lucha

activist .

Every last Friday of the month, he organizes a Slam workshop at the

French Institute in Goma. 

His latest album

Vis

 was released on December 19, 2021. 

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