Language and National Identity in AfricaAndrew Simpson This book focuses on language, culture, and national identity in Africa. Leading specialists examine countries in every part of the continent - Egypt, Morocco, Sudan, Senegal, Mali, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Zanbia, South Africa, and the nations of the Horn, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia. Each chapter describes and examines the country's linguistic and political history and the relation of its languages to national, ethnic, and cultural identities, and assesses the relative status of majority and minority languages and the role of language in ethnic conflict. Of the book's authors, fifteen are from Africa and seven from Europe and the USA. Jargon-free, fully referenced, and illustrated with seventeen maps, this book will be of value to a wide range of readers in linguistics, politics, history, sociology, and anthropology. It will interest everyone wishing to understand the dynamic interactions between language and politics in Africa, in the past and now. |
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From Egyptian to PanArab Nationalism | 26 |
Language Nationalism and Gender | 44 |
Majorities Minorities and Language Interactions | 61 |
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administration African languages Afrikaans Amharic ammiyya Anglophone Bambara Bantu Bemba Berber bilingual British Cameroon Cameroonian cent century chapter colonial communication Congolese country's cultural dialects dominant Egypt Egyptian nationalism elite English and French Eritrea Ethiopia ethnic groups ethno-linguistic European languages example formal francophone fusha Ghana Ghanaian guage Hausa Igbo important independence indigenous languages Islam Ivorian Ivory Coast Kenya Kiswahili Krio language and national language policy Lingala lingua franca linguistic major languages Mali medium of instruction modern Moroccan Arabic Morocco mother tongue multilingual Muslim national identity national language nationalists Nigeria northern official language Oromo political population position primary promotion provinces regional Republic role schools second language Senegal Senegalese Sierra Leone situation social sociolinguistic Somali Songhay South Africa southern speakers spoken Standard Arabic status Studies Sudan Sudanese Swahili Tanzania Temne territory Tigrinya University urban variety West Wolof Yoruba Zambia