


A continental university that teaches in English and French still serves students who think, care and argue in other African languages. This book chapter reports a trial of optional academic-writing clinics in Kiswahili and Hausa alongside AFU’s official languages. Students who attended produced clearer English or French assessed work, a result consistent with translanguaging research. The clinics did not become a demand to mark high-stakes awards in every language. They became a way to think. The University of Edinburgh should fund language clinics as academic services, hire tutors with linguistic as well as disciplinary skill, and stop treating African languages as ceremony on a homepage. A digital campus for Africa must hear the languages Africa actually uses to learn.