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The power of Babel : language & governance in the African experience

Title
  1. The power of Babel : language & governance in the African experience / Ali A. & Alamin M. Mazrui.
Published by
  1. Oxford, England : J. Currey ; Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1998], ©1998.
Author
  1. Mazrui, Ali AlʼAmin.

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Additional authors
  1. Mazrui, Alamin, 1948-
Description
  1. xii, 228 pages; 25 cm
Subject
  1. Africa
  2. Sociolinguistics
  3. Sociolinguistique > Afrique
  4. Afrique > Langues
  5. Afrika
  6. Langage et statut social > Afrique
  7. Africa > Languages
  8. Aufsatzsammlung
  9. Sociolinguistics > Africa
  10. Talen
  11. Politieke aspecten
  12. Language and languages
  13. Ethnolinguistique > Afrique
  14. Soziolinguistik
Genre/Form
  1. Aufsatzsammlung.
Contents
  1. Africa's linguistic legacy : between expansionism & nationalism / Ali A. Mazrui and Alamin M. Mazrui -- Language & race in the Black experience : an African perspective / Ali A. Mazrui -- African languages in the African-American experience ; Linguistic Eurocentrism & African counter-penetration : Ali Mazrui & the global frontiers of language / Alamin M. Mazrui -- Language & the quest for liberation : the legacy of Frantz Fanon ; Language in a multicultural context : the African experience / Alamin M. Mazrui and Ali A. Mazrui -- Language planning & gender planning : some African perspectives / Ali A. Mazrui -- Language policy & the foundations of democracy : an African perspective / Alamin M. Mazrui -- Language policy & the rule of law in 'anglophone' Africa / Alamin M. Mazrui and Ali A. Mazrui -- Dominant languages in a plural society : English & Kiswahili in post-colonial East Africa / Alamin M. Mazrui and Ali A. Mazrui -- A tale of two Englishes : the imperial language in post-colonial Kenya & Uganda / Alamin M. Mazrui and Ali A. Mazrui -- Roots of Kiswahili : colonialism, nationalism & the dual heritage / Alamin M. Mazrui -- The secularization of an Afro-Islamic language : church, state & marketplace in the spread of Kiswahili / Ali A. Mazrui and Pio Zirimu -- Conclusion : the linguistic balance sheet : post-Cold War, post-apartheid & beyond structural adjustment / Alamin M. Mazrui and Ali A. Mazrui.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-220) and index.