Please tell your students about the Minor in Sub-Saharan African languages (for example with Swahili or Wolof). The details can be found here:
http://www.linguistics.illinois.edu/students/undergrad/african/

Feel free to contact me or send your students to me with any questions.

Thanks,
Kristina

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Dr. Kristina Riedel
Director and Coordinator of Sub-Saharan African Languages
Advisor for Sub-Saharan African Languages Minor
Department of Linguistics
Homepage: http://www.linguistics.illinois.edu/people/kriedel

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