Languages of instruction for African emancipation
Subtitle: focus on postcolonial contexts and considerations
By: edited by Birgit Brock-Utne and Rodney Kofi Hopson.
Contributors: Brock-Utne, Birgit, 1938-; Hopson, Rodney K.
Series: CASAS book series -- no. 39
Publisher: Mkuki n Nyota Publishers; Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS)
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Cape Town, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9789987417360
Subjects: Language policy -- Africa.; Native language and education -- Africa.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: Educational language contexts and issues in postcolonial Africa / Birgit Brock-Utne, Rodney Kofi Hopson; value: Language of instruction for education, development and African emancipation / Kwesi Kwaa Prah; value: The continued battle over KiSwahili as the language of instruction in Tanzania / Birgit Brock-Utne; value: The paradox of English only in post-independent Namibia : toward whose education for all? / Rodney Kofi Hopson; value: The language situation in Mozambique : current developments and prospects / Sozinho Francisco Matsinhe; value: 'We speak eleven tongues' : reconstructing multilingualism in South Africa / Leketi Makalela; value: Extinction or distinction? : empowering Setswana as the medium of instruction and instrument in Botswana schools / Annah Molosiwa; value: Ideologies of language and schooling in Guinea-Conakry : a postcolonial experience / Eva Yerendé; value: Mother-tongue education : lessons from the Yoruba experience / Ayo Bamgbose.