African languages, development and the state

African languages, development and the state / edited by Richard Fardon and Graham Furniss.

This shows that multilingusim does not pose for Africans the problems of communication that Europeans imagine and that the mismatch between policy statements and their pragmatic outcomes is a far more serious problem for future development.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Fardon, Richard (Editor), Furniss, Graham (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 1994.
Subjects:
African languages > Political aspects.
Language and languages > Political aspects.
Language policy > Africa.
Language planning > Africa.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES > Linguistics > Sociolinguistics.
African languages > Political aspects
Language and languages > Political aspects
Language planning
Language policy
Africa
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Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 Introduction
  • Richard Fardon and Graham Fumiss / Frontiers and boundaries--African languages as political environment
  • part Part I West Africa
  • chapter 2 Pride and prejudice in multilingualism and development / Ayo Bamgbose
  • chapter 3 Official and unofficial attitudes and policy towards Krio as the main lingua franca in Sierra Leone / C. Magbaily Fyle
  • chapter 4 The politics of language in Bénin / Mamoud Akanni Igué and Raphael Windali N'Ouéni
  • chapter 5 Minority language development in Nigeria: a situation report on Rivers and Bendel States
  • Ben Ohi Elugbe / A situation report on Rivers and Bendel States
  • chapter 6 Using existing structures
  • Gillian F. Hansford / Three phases of mother tongue literacy among Chumburung speakers in Ghana
  • chapter Part II Central and Southern Africa
  • chapter 7 The language situation and language use in Mozambique / J.M.M. Katupha
  • chapter 8 Language and the struggle for racial equality in the development of a non-racial Southern African nation / Jean Benjamin
  • chapter 9 Dismantling the Tower of Babel
  • Nhlanhla P. Maake / In search of a new language policy for a post-Apartheid South Africa
  • chapter 10 Healthy production and reproduction
  • James Fairhead / Agricultural, medical and linguistic pluralism in a Bwisha community, Eastern Zaïre
  • chapter 11 Minority language, ethnicity and the state in two African situations
  • Wim van Binsbergen / The Nkoya of Zambia and the Kalanga of Botswana
  • part Part III East Africa
  • chapter 12 Loanwords in Oromo and Rendille as a mirror of past inter-ethnic relations / Günther Schlee
  • chapter 13 The metaphors of development and modernization in Tanzanian language policy and research / Jan Blommaert
  • chapter 14 Language, government and the play on purity and impurity: Arabic, Swahili and the vernaculars in Kenya / David Parkin.

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