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Publication details [#18435]
Blommaert, Jan. 1999. State Ideology and Language in Tanzania. (East African Languages and Dialects 10). Rudiger Koppe. 204 pp.
Publication type
Book – monograph
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
ISBN
3-89645-024-7
Annotation
A sociolinguistic and historiographic study of postcolonial, socialist Tanzania: the effect of the Ujamaa ideology on Swahili (the national language) and the emergence of intellectual and scientific traditions are analyzed in detail.