The politics of language planning in Africa: Critical choices for the 21st century

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Acknowledgements V
3. Contents VII
4. Language and colonialism in Africa - Introduction 1
5. Section 1: Language contact and language conflict in Africa
6. The politics of language planning in Africa: Critical choices for the 21st century 11
7. Nation building and language in the new South Africa 29
8. Empowerment of the masses through the use of African languages 45
9. The growth of Kiswahili as language of education and administration in Tanzania 57
10. Section 2: Language expansion and language engineering: Case studies from Africa
11. The technicalization of the autochthonous languages of South Africa: Constraints from a present day perspective 83
12. Marketing new lexical terminology in Nigeria: Some practical considerations 101
13. The Somali language lexical project: Aims and methods 123
14. Technicalization of the lexicon through endogenous language resources: A case from Mali 139
15. Section 3: Language, culture and nation building: An illustration with Namibia
16. Official monolingualism in Africa: A sociolinguistic assessment of linguistic and cultural pluralism in Namibia 155
17. "Our official language shall be English": The Namibian Prime Minister's perspective 175
18. Language policy and language planning in Namibia 181
19. Language and nation in Namibia: The fallacies of Modernization Theory 207
20. Section 4: The status and use of languages: Linguistic conflict in Namibia
21. The role of English in Namibia: A sociocultural and linguistic account 223
22. Attitudes and language: An empirical investigation into the status and use of English in Namibia 245
23. Lexical engineering in African languages: Exemplified through Herero 285
24. The status and use of the German language in independent Namibia: Can German survive the transition? 299
25. Afrikaans - The unwanted lingua franca of Namibia 315
26. List of contributors 325
27. Index of Names 327
28. Subject Index 333