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Power of Babel

Language and Governance in the African Experience

Ali A Mazrui author Alamin Mazrui author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:James Currey

Published:1st Jan '98

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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

ISBN: 9780852558072

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 386g

320 pages