3. NICHE AREA
One of the fundamental “problems behind the problem” facing primary schooling in African language settings is the lack of focus on the language resources of children and teachers.
For a range of historical reasons, there has been limited educational work focused on language resources within African language settings. As such, there has been too little understanding of building early learning and literacy through an African language, while at the same time building English language skills.
Over the past ten years, the NMI has systematically developed expertise and experience at the interface of African language resources, early learning and literacy, with an emphasis on literacy and mathematics in African language dominant settings.