Individualized Classes

27 languages are offered in the learner-oriented, on-demand, and faculty-supervised program for the graduate student and research scholars, ensuring the availability of languages needed for all major regions of Africa. From the many African students in the MSU community, native speakers are recruited for training to serve as tutors in the program supervised weekly by a faculty linguist.

Classroom work is supplemented by an advanced language laboratory, as well as by computer-assisted instruction in some languages.

The languages currently available for study at MSU are as follows:

  • Acholi
  • Akan
  • Amharic
  • Arabic, Modern Standard
  • Arabic, Sudanese
  • Bambara
  • Bemba
  • Chewa
  • Fula/Fulfulde/Pulaar
  • Hausa
  • Igbo
  • Kikuyu
  • Kinyarwanda
  • Kpelle
  • Lingala
  • Luganda
  • Malagasy
  • Mandingo/Bamana
  • Mende
  • Nyanja
  • Oromo, West Central
  • Sesotho, Southern (Sotho)
  • Shona
  • Somali
  • Swahili
  • Temne
  • Tigrinya
  • Twi
  • West African Krio
  • Wolof
  • Xhosa
  • Yoruba
  • Zulu

(Bold denotes languages offered in a class mode. All others are on a tutorial basis.)

For more information, please visit African Studies Center or contact African Langauges Program Coordinator, Dr. Ibro Chekaraou, ichek@msu.edu