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Mesfun Asfaha, Yonas. 2015. Origin and development of multilingual education in Eritrea. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 36 (2) : 136–150.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

The Eritrean People's Liberation Front, forerunner to the actual government, distrustful of the policies of all precedent forces and accusing them of alienation, tried to de-politicise diversity by including it. Eritrea's current multilingual education policy employs the country's nine languages in the schools. The appliance of language rights viewpoints to the policy raises various concerns (e.g. on policy execution) that need further scrutiny.