A01=Alamin Mazrui
A01=Ali A. Mazrui
African languages
Author_Alamin Mazrui
Author_Ali A. Mazrui
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Category=NHTR
colonialism
cultural heritage
dominance
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European languages
language debate
nationalism
Product details
- ISBN 9780852558072
- Weight: 386g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jan 1998
- Publisher: James Currey
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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
