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Publication details [#27578]

Mazrui, Alamin M. 1996. Language policy and the foundations of democracy: An African perspective. International Journal of the Sociology of Language (118) : 107–124.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language choice | language of wider communication | language planning | language politics

Language as a subject

Languages, African

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0165-2516

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This paper suggests that African democracy would benefit from language policies that consolidate the use and development of local languages of wider communication.