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Language and National Identity in Africa
Published: 2008
Publisher: Oxford University Press
http://www.oup.com/us
Editor: Andrew Simpson
Hardback: ISBN: 9780199286744 Pages: 448 Price: U.S. $ 150.00
Paperback: ISBN: 9780199286751 Pages: 448 Price: U.S. $ 55.00
Abstract:
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, Zambia, South Africa and 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, and
cultural identities. The chapters also assess the relative status of majority
and minority languages and the role of language in ethnic conflict. Of the
books 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.
