Title: The power of Babel : language & governance in the African experience /
Authors: Mazrui, Ali AlʼAmin; Mazrui, Alamin M.; Mazrui, Alamin, 1948-
Publisher: J. Currey ; University of Chicago Press,
Year: 1998
Subjects: Sociolinguistics Africa.; Africa Languages.
Contents: Africa's linguistic legacy : between expansionism & nationalism / Ali A. Mazrui and Alamin M. Mazrui -- Language & race in the Black experience : an African perspective / Ali A. Mazrui -- African languages in the African-American experience ; Linguistic Eurocentrism & African counter-penetration : Ali Mazrui & the global frontiers of language / Alamin M. Mazrui -- Language & the quest for liberation : the legacy of Frantz Fanon ; Language in a multicultural context : the African experience / Alamin M. Mazrui and Ali A. Mazrui -- Language planning & gender planning : some African perspectives / Ali A. Mazrui -- Language policy & the foundations of democracy : an African perspective / Alamin M. Mazrui -- Language policy & the rule of law in 'anglophone' Africa / Alamin M. Mazrui and Ali A. Mazrui -- Dominant languages in a plural society : English & Kiswahili in post-colonial East Africa / Alamin M. Mazrui and Ali A. Mazrui -- A tale of two Englishes : the imperial language in post-colonial Kenya & Uganda / Alamin M. Mazrui and Ali A. Mazrui -- Roots of Kiswahili : colonialism, nationalism & the dual heritage / Alamin M. Mazrui -- The secularization of an Afro-Islamic language : church, state & marketplace in the spread of Kiswahili / Ali A. Mazrui and Pio Zirimu -- Conclusion : the linguistic balance sheet : post-Cold War, post-apartheid & beyond structural adjustment / Alamin M. Mazrui and Ali A. Mazrui.