🌹ALAA Graduation Tradition 🌹
We started a new graduation ceremony tradition at African Language Academy Australia (ALAA), namely:
1. Real drum roll by graduates 🎓 &
2. *Ensuring certificates are presented by grandparents*, who are our custodians of African culture and also to symbolise passing on African culture to the next generation.
We are so grateful to the following grandmothers:
1. Dr Casty Nyaga Hughes, Executive President of OACWA and grandmother, presented certificates to graduates in Swahili.
2. *Mrs. Jane Mary Bengura,* grandmother who presented certificates to graduates in Shona language &
3. *Mrs. Agnes Kaweme,* grandmother who presented certificates to graduates in Bemba language.
We are also very grateful to Mr Mdege, our Shona Teacher, who is qualified teacher with over 14 years experience,based in Zimbabwe who sent a video message to students.
And Madam Muthoni, another qualified Teacher and grandmother who teaches Swahili language via zoom and based in Nairobi.
Also grateful to Ms Monica Chibale, a qualified teacher based in Eswatini who teaches Bemba class.
Two strategic pillars serve as the foundation of our teaching model at ALAA, namely:
1. Language is best taught by the owners of the language, who own the traditions and heritage of that particular language.
2. *That language is not just taught as words or sentences but must be taught with the traditions and culture of that particular language.*
We also subscribe to the belief that:
The teacher has not taught if the student has not learnt
Enjoy the videos above 👆🏾, and for enrolments, please enroll via the ALAA website:
