The Power of Babel: Language and Governance in the African Experience
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Linguists estimate that there are currently nearly 2,000 languages in Africa, a staggering figure that is belied by the relatively few national languages. While African national politics, economics, and law are all conducted primarily in the colonial languages, the cultural life of the majority of citizens is conducted in a bewildering Babel of local and regional dialects, making language itself the center of debates over multiculturalism, gender...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0226514293
ISBN13:9780226514291
Release Date:August 1998
Publisher:University of Chicago Press
Length:235 Pages
Weight:0.85 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.6"
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