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The power of Babel : language & governance in the African experience
- Title
- The power of Babel : language & governance in the African experience / Ali A. & Alamin M. Mazrui.
- Author
- Mazrui, Ali AlʼAmin.
- Publication
- Oxford, England : J. Currey ; Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [1998], ©1998.
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- Additional Authors
- Mazrui, Alamin, 1948-
- Description
- xii, 228 pages; 25 cm
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 212-220) and index.
- Contents
- 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.
- ISBN
- 0226514285
- 9780226514284
- 0226514293
- 9780226514291
- 0852558082
- 9780852558089
- 0852558074
- 9780852558072
- LCCN
- 97032844
- 99975832795
- OCLC
- ocm37987038
- 37987038
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries