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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. Durham University 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.