Languages in Africa: Multilingualism, Language Policy, and Education

People in many African communities live within a series of concentric circles when it comes to language. In a small group, a speaker uses an often unwritten and endangered mother tongue that is rarely used in school. A national indigenous language-written, widespread, sometimes used in school-surrounds it. An international language like French or English, a vestige of colonialism, carries prestige, is used in higher education, and promises mobility-and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1626161526
• ISBN13: 9781626161528
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Georgetown University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"