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Power of Babel: Language in the African Experience

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Power of Babel: Language in the African Experience - Mazrui, Ali A., and Mazrui, Alamin
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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.

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Power of Babel: Language in the African Experience 1998, James Currey, Oxford

ISBN-13: 9780852558089

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