Alamin M. Mazrui

English in Africa (eBook, PDF)

After the Cold War

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Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a critical examination of aspects of the politics the role of English in Africa and its Diaspora. It looks at its changed location in the post-Cold War era and the challenges it poses to the enduring quest for intellectual liberation, pan-Africanism and Afrocentricity. The study also explores the spaces and possibilities for appropriating the language towards a counter-hegemonic African-centred agenda under the present global order.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Multilingual Matters
• Seitenzahl: 152
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781853596919
• Artikelnr.: 50403343

Autorenporträt

Alamin M. Mazrui is Associate Professor of sociolinguistics and literature with the Department of African American and African Studies at the Ohio State University, USA. A Swahili poet and playwright, he has co-authored five books and written widely on the political sociology of language and literature in Africa and on comparative cultural studies.