MISSION & VISION
MISSION
The foundation is powered by the interest and passion to raise the visibility of African Languages in Kenya, Africa and the world, as vehicles for performance, creativity, innovations, and scholarship. It sees African languages as the new intellectual frontier in everything from culture, biological sciences, technology and medicine.
VISION
Culture contact is the oxygen of civilization, but only on the reciprocal basis of an equal give and take. The work of the Foundation will be driven by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s globalectic vision of a networking of languages, cultures and regions on the basis of equal give and take, in the service of our common humanity. It will further that vision guided by core values.
CORE VALUES
The Promotion of self-reliance and community self-empowerment through knowledge generated from bottom up. Indeed self-reliance before reliance on others should be the goal of the continent. But self-reliance does mean self-isolation. Self-reliance should be the basis of mutual cooperation with others.
The foundation is powered by the interest and passion to raise the visibility of African Languages in Kenya, Africa and the world, as vehicles for performance, creativity, innovations, and scholarship. It sees African languages as the new intellectual frontier in everything from culture, biological sciences, technology and medicine.
VISION
Culture contact is the oxygen of civilization, but only on the reciprocal basis of an equal give and take. The work of the Foundation will be driven by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s globalectic vision of a networking of languages, cultures and regions on the basis of equal give and take, in the service of our common humanity. It will further that vision guided by core values.
CORE VALUES
The Promotion of self-reliance and community self-empowerment through knowledge generated from bottom up. Indeed self-reliance before reliance on others should be the goal of the continent. But self-reliance does mean self-isolation. Self-reliance should be the basis of mutual cooperation with others.