How do you save a dying language - BBC Africa
On World Food Day (16/10), BBC Focus On Africa Podcast consider how changing weather patterns due to climate change are worsening Nigeria's food insecurity.
BBC journalist Mohanad Hashim's emotional return to the city of his birth, Omdurman in Sudan, 18 months after the war started
And efforts to save the Yaaku language which is at risk of extinction in Kenya.
00:00 Intro
01:01 How is climate change affecting food production and farming in Nigeria?
07:56 BBC reporter: 'They ransacked my home and left my town in ruins'.
15:22 How to save a language at risk of extinction
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