Publications

Publication details [#28760]

Omoniyi, Tope. 1997. My blood, my nation: Ethnicity and nationality as alternative and hierarchical identities in African borderlands. ITL 117 - 118 : 27–50.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

ethnicity | identity negotiation | language politics | nationality | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

English | French | Yoruba

Place, Publisher

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

ISBN

0019-0810

Journal WWW

benjamins.com/catalog/itl

Annotation

This paper deals with language attitudes as expressions of identity in the Idiroko/Igolo border communities of Southwestern Nigeria.