Vol. 8 No 2 (2004): Out of Africa, Linguistic Perspectives

This This series examines language and writing as early human skills whose development began within African ecological and cultural contexts. This approach strengthens the continuity of human origins and removes racial and political distortions that later frameworks imposed. It places linguistic and symbolic systems back inside their proper relationships with environment, cognition, social organisation and cultural transmission. By doing so it allows a more precise exploration of how early African populations formed, adapted and encoded knowledge, rather than treating writing and language as regional inventions without deep ancestral continuity.