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Publication details [#53775]

Ndhlovu, Finex. 2010. Language politics in postcolonial Africa revisited: Minority agency and language imposition. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 41 (2) : 175–192.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language maintenance | language politics | minority language | national language | sociolinguistics

Language as a subject

Languages, African

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

Focusing on the role of African minorities in the marginalisation of their own African languages, this study argues that notwithstanding official language policies, there is still room for 'unplanned' language planning activities in opposing hegemonic language ideologies in post-colonial Africa.