African Languages, Development and the State

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Richard Fardon, Graham Furniss
Routledge, 1994 - Language Arts & Disciplines - 254 pages
This shows that multilingusim does not pose for Africans the problems of communication that Europeans imagine and that the mismatch between policy statements and their pragmatic outcomes is a far more serious problem for future development

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Richard Fardon,Graham Furniss
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About the author (1994)

Richard Fardon is Professor of West African Anthropology and Head of the Doctoral School at SOAS, University of London. He writes as a social anthropologist and an ethnographer of West Africa with wide interests that include art, intellectual history, religion, politics, and identity.

GRAHAM FURNISS is also a former chairman of the Centre for African Studies. Fardon and Furniss previously collaborated on African Languages, Development, and the State (1994).

Bibliographic information

TitleAfrican Languages, Development and the State
EditorsRichard Fardon, Graham Furniss
Editionillustrated, reprint
PublisherRoutledge, 1994
ISBN0415094763, 9780415094764
Length254 pages
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Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics
Social Science / Anthropology / General
  
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