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State-building and multilingual education in Africa

Albaugh, Ericka A., author

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\"How do governments in Africa make decisions about language? What does language have to do with state-building, and what impact might it have on democracy? This manuscript provides a longue durexplanation for policies toward language in Africa, taking the reader through colonial, independence, and contemporary periods. It explains the growing trend toward the use of multiple languages in education as result of new opportunities and incentives. The opportunities incorporate ideational relationships with former colonizers as well as the work of language NGOs on the ground. The incentives relate to the current requirements of democratic institutions, and the strategies leaders devise to win elections within these constraints. By contrasting the environment faced by African leaders with that faced by European state-builders, it explains the weakness of education and limited spread of standard languages on the continent. The work combines constructivist understanding about changing preferences with realist insights about the strategies leaders employ to maintain power\"-- Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Multilingualism Africa. / Language and education Africa. / Education and state Africa. / Education, Bilingual Africa. / Language and languages Study and teaching Africa. / POLITICAL SCIENCE / General.
• ISBN: 9781107042087, 1107042089

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
P115.5.A35 A43 2014	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE