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African indigenous sign languages & colonialism

As early as the 1100s, developed indigenous sign languages were recorded in Africa. Some of the early developed sign languages originate from Ghana, Nigeria, Zimbabwe, and Egypt. But during the many centuries of colonialism, sign languages were side-tracked and left undocumented in Africa. It was only in 1957 when Andrew Foster came to Ghana that deaf people began to have a recognized language - American Sign language. But the problem is, it wasn’t their own. Dr. Emmanuel Asonye of the University of New Mexico explains the history and path to the near extinction of sign languages as a linguistic expert specialized and dedicated to indigenous African sign languages.