Publications

Publication details [#65372]

Meeuwis, Michael and Margot Luyckfasseel. 2018. Ethnicity and Language in the Run-Up to Congolese Independence in the 1950s: Ba(Ki)Kongo and Ba(Li)Ngala. Language Matters: Studies in the Languages of Africa 49 (3) : 86–104.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

colonialism | ethnicity | language status | language use | political system

Language as a subject

Kikongo | Lingala

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

Tracking back Abako's mutation from linguistic-cultural movement to political party, this study limns how, in pre-independence Kinshasa, politics was ethnicised and ethnicity was politicised along a Bakongo–Bangala and Kikongo–Lingala gap.