corporation called World of Languages to support his work with linguists from Stanford, Yale and the University of California-Los Angeles who were creating a video archive for the disappearing songs, poetry and dances of Kenya and Tanzania. He received a grant from the Department of Education and a Fulbright Fellowship for his work.He also filmed and directed a series of video stories in Nigeria to be used for Hausa language learning at UCLA.
A grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities funded a multimedia language and culture "textbook" for Hausa, the native language of 30 million people.
from Stanford University News: Stanford artist Richard Randell dies at 81
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