Power of Babel: Language and Governance in the African Experience - Softcover

Mazrui, Ali A.; Mazrui, Alamin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0852558074 ISBN 13: 9780852558072

Verlag: James Currey, 1998

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Ali Mazrui address the great language debate in Africa. Tackling the contentious question of African languages versus European languages, this study argues that the dominance of the incoming languages is due to two factors: originally the societies were not expansionist enough, and later the peoples of Africa failed to be nationalist enough. ALI A. MAZRUI was Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton and Senior Scholar in African Studies atCornell University North America: Chicago U Press; Uganda: Fountain Publishers; Kenya: EAEP

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Tackling the contentious question of African languages versus European languages, this study argues that the dominance of the incoming languages is due to two factors: originally the societies were not expansionist enough, and later the peoples of Africa failed to be nationalist enough.

ALI A. MAZRUI was Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton and Senior Scholar in African Studies at Cornell University

North America: Chicago U Press; Uganda: Fountain Publishers; Kenya: EAEP

Biografía del autor

ALI A. MAZRUI is Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies at the State University of New York at Binghamton and Senior Scholar in African Studies at Cornell University

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: James Currey
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0852558074
• ISBN 13: 9780852558072
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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