Languages of instruction for African emancipation : focus on postcolonial contexts and considerations / edited by Birgit Brock-Utne and Rodney Kofi Hopson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brock-Utne, Birgit, 1938-

Hopson, Rodney K. (Rodney Kofi)

Series:

CASAS book series ; no. 39.

CASAS book series ; no. 39

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Language policy--Africa.

Language policy.

Africa.

Physical Description:

257 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania : Mkuki n Nyota Publishers ; Cape Town, South Africa : Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society (CASAS), 2005.

Summary:

Anyone who is looking for a contemporary discussion on the complex educational language scene in postcolonial Africa will find this book an important read. Though written in English, it deals with countries in what are known as the francophone and lusophone parts of Africa as well as the socalled anglophone countries. It addresses and explores common myths about languages of instruction in Tanzania. Namibia, Mozambique, South Africa, Botswana, Guinea and Nigeria. The editors have seen it as important to encourage young/new African scholars to enter into the debates on the language of instruction in Africa alongside well-established authors in the field. The authors gathered in this volume offer an interesting cross-section of voices with varied experience from the African continent. The volume has been put together especially with postgraduate students and teachers as well as policy-makers in Africa in mind. The book should also interest donors to education in Africa. local and international NGOs working in Africa, and students of African education and African languages both in Africa and abroad.

The statuette appearing on the front cover is a Basuku statuette: Southwestern Congo/North-western Angola Book jacket.

Contents:

Educational language contexts and issues in postcolonial Africa / Birgit Brock-Utne, Rodney Kofi Hopson

Language of instruction for education, development and African emancipation / Kwesi Kwaa Prah

The continued battle over KiSwahili as the language of instruction in Tanzania / Birgit Brock-Utne

The paradox of English only in post-independent Namibia : toward whose education for all? / Rodney Kofi Hopson

The language situation in Mozambique : current developments and prospects / Sozinho Francisco Matsinhe

'We speak eleven tongues' : reconstructing multilingualism in South Africa / Leketi Makalela

Extinction or distinction? : empowering Setswana as the medium of instruction and instrument in Botswana schools / Annah Molosiwa

Ideologies of language and schooling in Guinea-Conakry : a postcolonial experience / Eva Yerendé

Mother-tongue education : lessons from the Yoruba experience / Ayo Bamgbose.

ISBN:

9987417361

OCLC:

61438233