Language Attitudes in Sub-Saharan Africa

By E. Adegbija

An informative sociolinguistic and sociopolitical description and analysis of language attitudes in sub-Saharan Africa. The book emphasizes the strong ideological and polemical view that multilingualism in sub-Saharan Africa should seen as a resource and an asset. It argues, therefore, that African indigenous languages need to empowered for greater functions to ensure effective mass mobilization, literacy, and total and original self-actualization.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1853592390
• ISBN13: 9781853592393
• Release Date: July 1994
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Length: 144 Pages